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" The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads. "

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" Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers. "

Marshall Goldsmith

" Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. "

" He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. "

" Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. "

Frederick W. Smith

" Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure. "

" Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will. "

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

" The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded. "

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

" There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs. "

" People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong. "

" The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line. "

" I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. "

" There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. "

" Delivering a successful presentation could mean landing a major new contract, better prices for your services, or getting the funding you need. Failure can mean lost customers and a business that never gets off the ground. "

" Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't. "

" 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

" 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. "

Mother Angelica

" Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. "

" It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it. "

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

George Bernard Shaw

" The only real failure is giving up. "

" Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance. "

" Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. "

" Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. "

" At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it. "

" Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success. "

" What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? "

" I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport. "

Mike Krzyzewski