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" 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. "

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" It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. "

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth

See

Mistakes

" The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life. "

" All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. "

" Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. "

" Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. "

" Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are. "

" Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it. "

" Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind. "

" My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success. "

" 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. "

" 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

Failure

Sin

Man

" The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.' "

" All war represents a failure of diplomacy. "

" Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. "

" I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure. "

" When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move. "

Trip Adler

Learning

Good

" Not failure, but low aim is sin. "

" In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work. "

" This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. "

" When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. "

" 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. "

" Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction. "

" Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. "

" All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. "

" When you fail, things get real. In fact, they get real real. If your success was a high profile success, then your failure will be a high profile failure. Opportunities and 'friendships' will evaporate. Failure shines a bright light on all relationships. The ones that last are pure and true, which is a true gift. "

" I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. "

" 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

Failure

Myself