You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

About Bill Cosby

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William Henry Cosby Jr. ( KOZ-bee; born July 12, 1937) is an American former comedian, actor, and media personality. Often deemed a trailblazer for African Americans in the entertainment industry, Cosby was well known in the United States for his stand-up comedy routines and television career before achieving global recognition...

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If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

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More quotations tagged with “failure”

It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possible only in one way.

—Beverly Sills

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

—George Edward Woodberry

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

—Quentin Crisp

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11 Jul 2015 Added