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" Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. "

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" The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. "

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

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" So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. "

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" Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. "

" My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success. "

" My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective. "

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" If you truly want to find a meaningful relationship, you've got to find yourself first and learn to be confident in your own skin. Don't sacrifice anything about who you are to be with someone. That's setting yourself up for failure. "

" Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. "

John C. Maxwell

" In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. "

" Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love. "

" Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose. "

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" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "

" Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try. "

" You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete. "

" Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. "

" Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all. "

" If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. "

" Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are. "

" It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there. "

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

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

" Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts. "

" I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. "

" I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" As a small business owner, you may not have the luxury to throw good money after bad, but if you can ascertain the 'why' of the failure, you can draw some significance from it and then turn it into something that clients will buy. "

Michael E. Gerber

" War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. "

" Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity. "

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" We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure. "