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" I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. "

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" I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport. "

Mike Krzyzewski

" Success is always less funny than failure. "

" It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. "

Sylvester Stallone

" 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. "

" This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. "

" The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying. "

" Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose. "

Taylor Sheridan

" I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "

T. Boone Pickens

" Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. "

Kenneth L. Pike

" Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count. "

" He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. "

" Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. "

" I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed. "

Heston Blumenthal

" You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. "

" None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature. "

" I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you. "

" 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. "

" Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. "

" You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood. "

Gabrielle Union

" This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. "

" No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. "

" I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find. "

Steven Spielberg

" There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. "

" I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning. "

" I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters. "

" My life has been nothing but a failure. "

" I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth. "

" Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. "