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" Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. "

Sumner Redstone

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" Without failure there is no achievement. "

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" The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. "

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" Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind. "

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" You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. "

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" War remains the decisive human failure. "

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" How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed. "

" Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. "

Thomas A. Edison

" Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society. "

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" Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success. "

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" Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern. "

Jillian Michaels

" The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. "

" I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts. "

" No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. "

" Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent. "

" Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. "

" I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. "

" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "

" A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. "

" Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. "

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" Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be. "

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

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" Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self. "

" American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" Success is 99 percent failure. "

" Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure. "

" 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. "

" If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. "