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" Failure is a word that I simply don't accept. "

John H. Johnson

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" Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. "

Gifford Pinchot

" What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? "

" What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth. "

Anne Wilson Schaef

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

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure. "

" I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. "

" All war represents a failure of diplomacy. "

" The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. "

" If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them. "

" Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. "

" 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. "

Robert J. Shiller

" The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. "

Toni Cade Bambara

" The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector. "

" Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. "

" Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion. "

M. Stanton Evans

" I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure. "

" There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. "

" The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. "

" If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful. "

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" The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. "

" There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul. "

" Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure. "

" You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good. "

" I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill. "

Matthew McConaughey

" Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. "

" Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain. "

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

" Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers. "