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" The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. "

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" Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best. "

Suki Waterhouse

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" Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. "

" I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. "

" Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are. "

" I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. "

" 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. "

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

" No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. "

" A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. "

" I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. "

Mason Cooley

Failure

Happy

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

" The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. "

" Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. "

" Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it. "

" Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. "

" At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure. "

" I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find. "

" One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. "

" My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music. "

" Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. "

" If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. "

Rosalynn Carter

Try

You

" 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. "

" If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred. "

" I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed. "

" 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. "

" I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day. "

" The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi. "

" I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid. "

" Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "

J. K. Rowling

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" What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself. "