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" Not failure, but low aim, is crime. "

James Russell Lowell

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Tullian Tchividjian

" 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. "

Russell Simmons

" Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think. "

" War is the greatest failure of mankind. "

" You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. "

" Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes. "

" Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. "

" 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

" 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. "

" The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves. "

Henry B. Eyring

" 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

" The only failure is not to try. "

" Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. "

" As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. "

" We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. "

Whoopi Goldberg

" Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. "

" I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure. "

Emanuel Steward

" Failure is a word unknown to me. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

" The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. "

" What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? "

" We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. "

" Success is often built on the shoulders of failure - from which new configurations emerge. "

" I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure. "

" As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? "

" One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine. "

Joseph Stiglitz

" One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. "

" The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. "

Francis Picabia

" Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes. "

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

" The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. "