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" Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? "

Ernest Hemingway

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" 'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure. "

Fabrizio Moreira

" The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure. "

" I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them. "

" Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. "

" Most organizations don't fall apart as a result of one big blow. Most relationships don't end because of one grand argument. Most lives don't fall to pieces due to one sad event. No, I suggest to you that sustained failure happens as the consequence of small, daily acts of neglect that stack up over time to lead to a blow up - and break down. "

Robin S. Sharma

" In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal to men for equal work is also a women's health issue. The fact is that the salary women are paid directly impacts the type of health care services they are able to access for both themselves and their families. "

Kirsten Gillibrand

" Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. "

" Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs. "

" Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career. "

" I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective. "

" A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. "

Ernest Hemingway

" When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. "

Ernest Hemingway

" YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed. "

" As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? "

" I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. "

Ernest Hemingway

" Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. "

" I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it. "

Loudon Wainwright III

" Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. "

Ernest Hemingway

" The wisest of the wise may err. "

" I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure. "

" Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. "

Douglas Coupland

" Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. "

" I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. "

" I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.' "

" No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. "

Robert W. Service

" In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. "

" Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you're creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it's very time consuming and has a higher threshold 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

" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "

" Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. "

George Edward Woodberry