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"Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread."

Dirk Benedict on Failure

More quotes about Failure

  • "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

    Theodore Roosevelt on Failure

  • "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

    Michael Jordan on Failure

  • "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

    Calvin Coolidge on Failure

  • "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

    Abraham Lincoln on Failure

  • "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

    Steve Jobs on Failure

More quotes by Dirk Benedict

  • "It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife."

  • "My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it."

  • "Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails."

  • "Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread."

  • "From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life."

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