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" I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. "

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" Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career. "

" The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. "

" There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell. "

" Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. "

" Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts. "

" Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure. "

Stanley A. McChrystal

" I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor. "

" Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works. "

" People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much. "

" Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.' "

" There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people, and times when a game that is built around overcoming failure can teach us all a few important lessons. "

" The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure. "

" 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. "

" I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges. "

" It's about not having doubt in your mind and staying focused and not having any preconceived notion about failure. It's just looking forward and staying positive. "

" Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. "

" The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort. "

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

" Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. "

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

" Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all. "

" In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure. "

" Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me. "

" Our country's got a sin problem, and I believe if these politicians in Washington would recognize the moral failure of so many of their policies that maybe we could fix it. "

Franklin Graham

" Old and young disbelieve one another's truths. "

" Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. "

" I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. "