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" One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken. "

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James Lane Allen

" 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. "

" The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. "

Laurence J. Peter

" All war represents a failure of diplomacy. "

" If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure. "

" No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers. "

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" Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable. "

Michael Morpurgo

" If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. "

" 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. "

" When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again. "

" Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best. "

" I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at. "

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Susan B. Anthony

" It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated. "

" 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. "

M. Stanton Evans

" Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. "

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" When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. "

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" Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. "

Douglas Coupland

" I didn't pass my degree due to never handing in an acceptable dissertation, and while it didn't harm me in the long run, my failure to complete the course properly probably led me to spend the next six years or so coasting, unsure of what to do next. "

Charlie Brooker

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" That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it's all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort - but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that's still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do - that's a huge piece to moving your life forward. "

" Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. "