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" I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative. "

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" Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. "

" 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. "

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" When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human. "

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" Success is never final, but failure can be. "

" 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. "

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" My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music. "

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

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" One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. "

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

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" I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure. "

" Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable. "

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" People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong. "

" Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure. "

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" 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. "

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

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" The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves. "

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