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" Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. "

Thomas A. Edison

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

" If you truly want to find a meaningful relationship, you've got to find yourself first and learn to be confident in your own skin. Don't sacrifice anything about who you are to be with someone. That's setting yourself up for failure. "

" Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. "

" People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. "

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

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

" We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying. "

" At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it. "

" I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians. "

" The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high. "

" Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. "

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" Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works. "

" At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. "

" Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. "

Thomas A. Edison

" The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. "

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" Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. "

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" The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye. "

" I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again. "

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" I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally. "

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" The only real failure is giving up. "

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" In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. "

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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. "

" Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society. "

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