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" A love of nature is a consolation against failure. "

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To Err Is Human

" Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. "

" Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. "

" Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. "

" A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. "

" In addition to encouraging failure, I would also encourage companies to broadly create a culture of innovation. That should mean more than just technology and invention; it should mean something millennials know well: Ingenuity. "

Cathy Engelbert

" I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do. "

" Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. "

" How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. "

" Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations. "

" Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "

" He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. "

" Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption. "

" True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people. "

" Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. "

" If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. "

Douglas Coupland

" So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. "

" To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. "

" There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success. "

" There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. "

Malcolm Muggeridge

" Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. "

" For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great? "

" We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. "

Whoopi Goldberg

" You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. "

" Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. "

Kenneth L. Pike

" 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

" President Obama's greatest failure is his failure regarding foreign policy and national security. "

" There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. "

" We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment. "