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" A life which does not go into action is a failure. "

Arnold J. Toynbee

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" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "

" I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan. "

" I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. "

Tennessee Williams

" People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. "

" The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. "

" The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. "

" It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. "

Harry Oppenheimer

" We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

" Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. "

" There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. "

" An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is. "

" You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project. "

" There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. "

" Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure. "

" You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. "

" There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure. "

" People never confess to failure. They should. "

" Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure. "

" There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell. "

" Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. "

" You always pass failure on your way to success. "

" There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. "

Elliot Richardson

" After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters, women - but was met with a counter-narrative that, in fact, it was Romney's failure to be conservative enough that led to a depressed Republican base. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

" If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes. "

Peter Diamandis

" Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy. "

" I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better. "

Sarah Michelle Gellar

" Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share. "

" A minute's success pays the failure of years. "

Robert Browning

" The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. "

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