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" I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. "
Molly Ringwald
More
Failure
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" Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction. "
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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" You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. "
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" No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. "
Napoleon Hill
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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. "
John Ortberg
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" 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. "
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" At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. "
Robert Farrar Capon
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" No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. "
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" When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen. "
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" There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. "
William James
Self
True
Man
" I never really felt like I belonged in California. "
Molly Ringwald
Never
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" If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. "
Oprah Winfrey
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" So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. "
Barack Obama
" The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. "
H. L. Mencken
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Failure
God
" Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me. "
Jerry West
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Failure
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" I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie. "
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Father
" I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. "
Elizabeth Taylor
Pink
Cloud
Failure
" Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing. "
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" I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. "
Tony Robbins
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" I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately. "
Molly Ringwald
Free
Mistakes
Early
" Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes. "
Burton Richter
Want
Time
Pretty
" I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc. "
Claire Messud
Failure
World
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" If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes. "
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" It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure. "
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" The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense. "
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You
Failure
" Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. "
Louis E. Boone
New Things
Failure
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" A minute's success pays the failure of years. "
Robert Browning
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Years
Failure
" Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring. "
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Nobody
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You
" Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again. "
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