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" Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. "

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" Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. "

" Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. "

Brian Ferneyhough

" I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules. "

Malcolm Mclaren

" You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles. "

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

" Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern. "

Jillian Michaels

" Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. "

Thomas A. Edison

" The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. "

" Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent. "

" There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. "

" In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection. "

" So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. "

" Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes. "

" Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you're creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it's very time consuming and has a higher threshold for failure. "

" 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. "

James R. Clapper

" Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. "

Douglas Coupland

" 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. "

" Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it. "

" There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. "

" In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

" In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. "

" True, foolish risks can lead to difficult consequences. But having said that, don't be so scared of failure and disappointment that you fail to dream. "

Robin S. Sharma

" Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. "

" For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays. "

" It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. "

Sylvester Stallone

" We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. "

" The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. "

" Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure. "

Robert J. Shiller

" Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. "

" I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. "