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" 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. "

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" That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere. "

" 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. "

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

Matthew McConaughey

" YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed. "

" If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up. "

" Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. "

" No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. "

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

" A love of nature is a consolation against failure. "

" I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times. "

" Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? "

Chester W. Nimitz

" The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. "

" Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away. "

J. Maarten Troost

" I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. "

" No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. "

Robert W. Service

" 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. "

Suki Waterhouse

" Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it. "

" Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. "

" I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians. "

" Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. "

" 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. "

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

" 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

" 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? "

" The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense. "

Coretta Scott King

" 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. "

" People never confess to failure. They should. "

" Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. "

" Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure. "

" Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count. "

" There's no right or wrong, success or failure. "