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" Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. "

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" I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. "

George Eliot

Failure

Purpose

Best

" Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. "

" It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. "

" I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative. "

" Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work. "

" Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. "

" If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism. "

" If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises. "

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

" Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up. "

" Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. "

" All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. "

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

" 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

Relationship

Balance

" At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye. "

" Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again. "

" You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.' "

Florence Scovel Shinn

Success

Impress

Failure

" Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. "

" Success and failure are equally surprising. "

" Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. "

" 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. "

" Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure. "

" Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away. "

" 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. "

" More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value. "

" With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. "

" What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object? "

" We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. "

" Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. "

" Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. "