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" Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. "

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" Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away. "

J. Maarten Troost

" Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. "

" Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems. "

" Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. "

Tullian Tchividjian

" The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. "

" Failure is always an option. "

" I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. "

" Failure to deport aliens who are convicted for criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk - especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators. "

" This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. "

Henry A. Wallace

" Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. "

Douglas Coupland

" Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy. "

" I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. "

" I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. "

Albert Einstein

" When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems. "

" 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. "

John Drinkwater

" I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past - they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way. "

Scott Derrickson

" The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape. "

" The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. "

" Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. "

" The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. "

" Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything. "

" Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. "

" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "

Steven Spielberg

" Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. "

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

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

" War remains the decisive human failure. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. "

John B. S. Haldane

" Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. "