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" Most girls are taught to avoid risk and failure. We're taught to smile pretty, play it safe, get all A's. Boys, on the other hand, are taught to play rough, swing high, crawl to the top of the monkey bars, and then just jump off headfirst. "

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" I think that feeling of being thrown into the deep end and doing something you never thought you would accomplish is really powerful. "

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

" However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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" Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. "

" Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. "

" The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

" Fear of failure has always been my best motivator. "

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

" Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again. "

" Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" We've all experienced those days when we feel like an absolute failure. It's a normal feeling when things don't go as exactly planned. And, when we feel like that, it's challenging to think of yourself as a successful individual. "

" Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.' "

" You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. "

George Cukor

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" In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure. "

" Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. "

" I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. "

" War is failure of diplomacy. "

" I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?' "

" I often find myself quoting from Victor Hugo after one of my theatrical ventures. 'Now that my play is a failure,' he once said, 'I find I love it all the more.' I first quoted that after 'Square Rounds' at the Olivier in 1992. "

" 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. "

" I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched. "

Jonah Hill

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" As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion. "

" 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. "

" Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure. "

" The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. "

" Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them. "