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" If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. "

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" If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises. "

" 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. "

" We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it. "

" There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. "

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" Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. "

" At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. "

" In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate. "

" Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst. "

" Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure. "

" Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes. "

" We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure. "

" The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. "

" Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. "

" We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it... It's a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off. "

" If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences. "

" Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources, startups cannot afford to have any slackers on board. When you fail, you cause an 'epic failure,' and when you win, everyone in the company knows about it. "

" You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. "

" Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way. "

" Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. "

" We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. "

" Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction. "

" What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root. "

" Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure. "

" We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox. "

" Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. "

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" Innovation demands risk-taking - which, in turn, entails redefining failure, stripping away its power to inhibit. "

" Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body. "

" My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today. "

" 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. "