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" Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. "

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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" When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure. "

" Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure. "

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

Benjamin Disraeli

" One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. "

" There's no right or wrong, success or failure. "

" Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable. "

Michael Morpurgo

" But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. "

Ernest Hemingway

" After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters, women - but was met with a counter-narrative that, in fact, it was Romney's failure to be conservative enough that led to a depressed Republican base. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

" America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. "

" In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure. "

Mike Krzyzewski

" No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers. "

Andrew Ross Sorkin

" It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed. "

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

" We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success. "

Arianna Huffington

" I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. "

" It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. "

Charles Kettering

" The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. "

Toni Cade Bambara

" Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure. "

" There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. "

" When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success. "

" There is no failure except in no longer trying. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Do not wallow in your failure. Spend some time grieving, learn from it, and then move on. Constantly replaying what went wrong will not benefit you. Get involved in another company, another cause, another relationship. "

Julie Wainwright

" At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself. "

" An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. "

" When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go. "