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" The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life. "

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" He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor. "

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" My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. "

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

" Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. "

" We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success. "

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

" Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. "

" Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. "

" When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success. "

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" Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure. "

" A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. "

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

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" Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. "

" The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. "

" As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. "

" No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad. "

" I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.' "

" Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. "

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

" The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high. "

" Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. "

" I always feel like a vague failure in L.A. - it always makes me feel like I should somehow be different than I am. And I don't know why. "

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" 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. "

" I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed. "

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" Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. "

" 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. "

" The only real failure is giving up. "

" Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions. "

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