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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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" Failure? Scared to death of it. "

" Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things. "

" In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. "

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" I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. "

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" When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go. "

" I had my dreams, and even though everyone told me that they weren't practical, I knew in my heart that this is what I had to do. Even if it ended up being a failure, I had to make the attempt. "

" To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. "

" Mistakes are the portals of discovery. "

" The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly. "

" Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport. "

" I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy. "

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" Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them. "

John C. Maxwell

" You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood. "

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" Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. "

" What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root. "

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" I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more. "

" You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure. "

" I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. "

" Delivering a successful presentation could mean landing a major new contract, better prices for your services, or getting the funding you need. Failure can mean lost customers and a business that never gets off the ground. "

" Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about. "

" Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster. "

" We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure. "

" We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it... It's a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off. "

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" You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. "

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

" All the world loves a good loser. "

" The hippy movement was a failure. "

" When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks. "