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" Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. "

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" Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. "

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" When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure. "

" Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. "

" I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now. "

" The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. "

" As a small business owner, you may not have the luxury to throw good money after bad, but if you can ascertain the 'why' of the failure, you can draw some significance from it and then turn it into something that clients will buy. "

" Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself. "

" No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. "

" Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process. "

" A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. "

" All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. "

" I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally. "

" If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. "

" For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. "

" The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure. "

" How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.' "

" Failure is a word unknown to me. "

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" My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. "

" He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. "

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

" Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. "

" We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it... It's a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off. "

" An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. "

" Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best. "

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

" We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success. "

" 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. "

" Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work. "

" Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake. "