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" Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. "

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" When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. "

George Bernard Shaw

" I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges. "

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

John C. Maxwell

" 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. "

" Fear of failure has always been my best motivator. "

" I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "

T. Boone Pickens

" Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets. "

" I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again. "

Kareena Kapoor Khan

" One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine. "

Joseph Stiglitz

" I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. "

" Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop. "

Richard Branson

" Man is not made for defeat. "

Ernest Hemingway

" Innovation demands risk-taking - which, in turn, entails redefining failure, stripping away its power to inhibit. "

" A life which does not go into action is a failure. "

Arnold J. Toynbee

" 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

" It's about not having doubt in your mind and staying focused and not having any preconceived notion about failure. It's just looking forward and staying positive. "

" Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. "

" Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. "

Montgomery Clift

" I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. "

Tennessee Williams

" Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. "

Charles Kettering

" For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. "

" Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. "

" They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? "

" 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. "

" Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship. "

Trisha Yearwood

" What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure. "

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

" Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success. "

" Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. "

" Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. "