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" I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. "

Herbert Bayard Swope

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" The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs. "

" I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. "

" The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty. "

Orison Swett Marden

" I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure. "

" Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers. "

Marshall Goldsmith

" Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. "

" 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. "

Dorothea Brande

" Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success. "

Daniel Lubetzky

" 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. "

Shenaz Treasury

" 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. "

" No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers. "

Andrew Ross Sorkin

" Do not wallow in your failure. Spend some time grieving, learn from it, and then move on. Constantly replaying what went wrong will not benefit you. Get involved in another company, another cause, another relationship. "

Julie Wainwright

" It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. "

" Every failure is a step to success. "

William Whewell

" Coding, it's an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes just a semicolon making the difference between success and failure. Code breaks and then it falls apart, and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you're trying to build comes to life. "

" The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed. "

" Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. "

Richard Branson

" I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. "

" I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices. "

" I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy. "

Walter Cronkite

" Demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve... it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project. "

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

" Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders. "

" Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. "

Gary Ryan Blair

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

John H. Johnson

" People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure. "

" Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. "

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

" Not failure, but low aim, is crime. "

James Russell Lowell

" In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. "

Frederick William Robertson