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" A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. "
Elbert Hubbard
Hope
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May
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" He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. "
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" I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians. "
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" Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way. "
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" When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score. "
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" Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure. "
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" The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. "
Barack Obama
" We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. "
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" Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure. "
Stanley A. McChrystal
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" Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction. "
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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" Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance. "
Jim Clyburn
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" Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. "
Elbert Hubbard
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" Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. "
Orlando Bloom
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" Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. "
Jeb Bush
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" Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house. "
Orison Swett Marden
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" The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. "
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" There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. "
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" Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable. "
Jerome Powell
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" The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves. "
Henry B. Eyring
God
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Earth
" I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. "
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" We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! "
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" At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself. "
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" So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.' "
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Government
Money
Employees
" I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual. "
Karan Patel
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Relationship
Balance
" The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. "
James A. Baldwin
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End
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" Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well. "
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" There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. "
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Failure
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" I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure. "
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" As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion. "
M. Stanton Evans
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" The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound. "
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