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" The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. "

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" He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. "

James Lane Allen

Failure

Fear

" As an entrepreneur, I've come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I've been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you're forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind. "

" 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. "

" The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction. "

" Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. "

" To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. "

" Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. "

" I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor. "

" Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. "

" Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. "

" I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more. "

Helen Garner

Feel

Failure

" It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. "

" Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living. "

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

Just

Death

Failure

" My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down. "

" Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. "

" War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. "

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

" The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape. "

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

" We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. "

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

" Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. "

" 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. "

" Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. "

" There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. "

Michel de Montaigne

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Failure

" It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail. "

" I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. "

" 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. "

Marjorie Liu

Heart

Failure

" It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. "