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" Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure. "

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" 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

" I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you. "

" Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders. "

" 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

" Partners from the Islamic world are of particular importance. Indeed, they have huge incentives to be involved, as the ongoing struggles are generally not clashes between civilizations. Rather, what we are seeing is more accurately a clash within a civilization: that of the Islamic world. "

" Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. "

" What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure. "

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

" I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. "

" Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. "

" Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. "

" The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. "

" To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. "

James Lane Allen

" The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed. "

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

George C. Wolfe

" Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop. "

Richard Branson

" I really started to get a sense of how, if you will, special Zarqawi was, I guess, sort of midway through 2004. "

" Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. "

" Failure too is a form of death. "

" I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do. "

" All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it's in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life. "

" People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. "

" Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you. "

Douglas Coupland

" Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. "

Montgomery Clift

" Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. "

" Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" 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. "