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" We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. "

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" 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

" Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it. "

" For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus. "

" I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number. "

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

" While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable. "

" Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. "

" I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form. "

" Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern. "

Jillian Michaels

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

Thomas A. Edison

" You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure. "

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

Edsger Dijkstra

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

" In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" President Obama's astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of American men and women. "

" Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure. "

" It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. "

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

" The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. "

" 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. "

Robert J. Shiller

" I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. "

" The only failure is not to try. "

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

" Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society. "

Robert J. Shiller

" We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. "

Rudyard Kipling

" Success is 99 percent failure. "

" 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. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

" Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history. "

Mario Vargas Llosa

" A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none. "

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