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" Failure is a part of success. "

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" A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. "

" There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul; the real question is what comes afterward. Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve the squabbling likely to arise over numerous issues and bring lasting stability to one of Iraq's most diverse and challenging provinces? Failure to do so could lead to ISIS 3.0. "

" 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. "

" The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. "

" Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure. "

" The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.' "

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

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

" If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. "

" The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. "

" Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. "

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" I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. "

Elizabeth Taylor

" Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager. "

" Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. "

" Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure. "

" I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. "

" 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. "

" When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human. "

" 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. "

" No man is a failure who is enjoying life. "

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" Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. "

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" It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. "

" Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.' "

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