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" Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. "

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" Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it. "

" While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be. "

" At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. "

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" My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year. "

" Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. "

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

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" The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion. "

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" The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. "

" It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. "

" Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying. "

" The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs. "

" If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices. "

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" People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most. "

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

" At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success. "

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" We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself. "

" Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success. "

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