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" Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. "

Lincoln Steffens

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" One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got. "

Lincoln Steffens

" Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes. "

" I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital. "

" I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. "

" Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it. "

Chiang Kai-shek

" It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth. "

" While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. "

Bryant H. McGill

" I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. "

" I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. "

Thomas A. Edison

" 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. "

" Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life. "

Michael Crawford

" We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. "

Amos Bronson Alcott

" Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure. "

" There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be. "

" This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. "

Henry A. Wallace

" When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again. "

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

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" Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure. "

" I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. "

Felicity Kendal

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" I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey. "

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" Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. "

Douglas Coupland

" 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. "

" All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night. "