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" The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. "

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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" Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes. "

" I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear. "

" You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. "

" I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? "

" It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. "

" We've all experienced those days when we feel like an absolute failure. It's a normal feeling when things don't go as exactly planned. And, when we feel like that, it's challenging to think of yourself as a successful individual. "

" It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. "

" Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. "

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

" Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport. "

" I had my dreams, and even though everyone told me that they weren't practical, I knew in my heart that this is what I had to do. Even if it ended up being a failure, I had to make the attempt. "

" The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. "

" I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges. "

" The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure. "

" I've struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a 'prison of perfectionism,' holding myself to a standard I couldn't possibly live up to. Then I became a mom, and all of a sudden, there arose even more opportunities for failure. "

" Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop. "

Richard Branson

" Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. "

" The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound. "

" I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos. "

" My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. "

" That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere. "

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

" Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. "

Montgomery Clift

" Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. "

" If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system. "

" 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. "

" I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure. "

" At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. "

Robert Farrar Capon

" Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things. "

" Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen. "