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" Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. "

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" If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful. "

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" The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. "

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. "

Edsger Dijkstra

" You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project. "

" My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess. "

Tullian Tchividjian

" Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations. "

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

" My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year. "

" Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution. "

" Failure is impossible. "

Susan B. Anthony

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

Coretta Scott King

" They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? "

" 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. "

" What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself. "

Malcolm Mclaren

" Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. "

Lillian Hellman

" You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. "

" Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history. "

Mario Vargas Llosa

" Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing. "

" Success is more difficult to handle than failure. "

" Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again. "

" At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success. "

Michael E. Gerber

" Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. "

" 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. "

" To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. "

" War is the greatest failure of mankind. "

" It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned. "

" It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. "

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

" You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. "

Thomas J. Watson

" Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. "

" Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. "