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" I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. "

Thomas A. Edison

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" I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid. "

" 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

" We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. "

Rudyard Kipling

" While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable. "

" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "

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

" For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment. "

" Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. "

" Failure? Scared to death of it. "

" I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city. "

" At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it. "

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

Arnold J. Toynbee

" Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it. "

Sarah McLachlan

" The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line. "

" Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking. "

" The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. "

Francis Picabia

" The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. "

" Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. "

Jennifer Lawrence

" A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try. "

Leonard Mlodinow

" Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life. "

Michael Crawford

" The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. "

" We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

" Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living. "

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

" The wisest of the wise may err. "

" Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. "

Swami Sivananda

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

" No man is a failure who is enjoying life. "

William Feather