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" It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. "

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" 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

" I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. "

" The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector. "

" Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. "

" During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds. Surely, enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos. Surely, Occam's razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God. "

" Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? "

Ernest Hemingway

" We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. "

Rudyard Kipling

" I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey. "

Sylvester Stallone

" My reputation grows with every failure. "

George Bernard Shaw

" By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. "

" Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain. "

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

" Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self. "

" A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. "

" As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. "

" I've struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a 'prison of perfectionism,' holding myself to a standard I couldn't possibly live up to. Then I became a mom, and all of a sudden, there arose even more opportunities for failure. "

" One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. "

" No man is a failure who is enjoying life. "

William Feather

" America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love. "

" I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative. "

" When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems. "

" If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. "

" Success is never final, but failure can be. "

" Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. "

" Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" 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. "

" I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others. "

Russell Simmons

" I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. "

" I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill. "

Matthew McConaughey

" Like anyone, I'm scared of failure. That drives you to work really hard. "

" I get this thing where people are like, 'Man, you got to tell me what to do' - like I have a cheat code to being successful. It's hard work; it's trial and error. I failed, but I never let failure get to my head or to my heart. "