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" It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. "

Edmond H. Fischer

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" Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. "

Charles Horton Cooley

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" So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. "

" Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. "

" It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things. "

" You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. "

" For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. "

" A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. "

" The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. "

" People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure. "

" I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it. "

David Thewlis

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" Not failure, but low aim, is crime. "

" Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. "

" There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. "

" 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. "

" Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager. "

" Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. "

" Failure is a word that I simply don't accept. "

John H. Johnson

Failure

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" War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. "

" So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.' "

" I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better. "

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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" 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. "

" I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure. "

" I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure. "

" Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. "

" Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. "

" Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success. "

" I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash. "

Eric Ries

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People

" I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. "

" Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. "