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" Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. "

John McCarthy

You

World

First

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" Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. "

" Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking. "

" Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere. "

" We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer. "

" You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. "

" You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure. "

" I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love. "

" There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success. "

" Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way. "

" Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. "

" 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

" It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things. "

" You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. "

" I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth. "

" Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill, has said the failure of that bill was a function of the lack of an ID card system. "

" When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward. "

" There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul; the real question is what comes afterward. Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve the squabbling likely to arise over numerous issues and bring lasting stability to one of Iraq's most diverse and challenging provinces? Failure to do so could lead to ISIS 3.0. "

" You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. "

" Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success. "

" Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions. "

John Ortberg

Who

Pilot

" There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. "

" It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. "

" I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. "

" I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success. "

" It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea. "

N. R. Narayana Murthy

You

Early

" The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense. "

" Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. "

" I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them. "