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" Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. "

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" As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion. "

M. Stanton Evans

Evil

End

Political

" 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 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. "

" The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.' "

Andra Day

Kind

Fall

" There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. "

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

George Cukor

You

Failure

" In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. "

" Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count. "

" 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. "

" It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed. "

Think

Succeed

" Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution. "

" Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. "

" 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? "

" The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. "

" Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on. "

" I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times. "

" We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. "

" Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. "

" Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. "

Thomas A. Edison

Man

Failure

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

" Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. "

" Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. "

Douglas Coupland

Music

Kind

" The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. "

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

" Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. "

" Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. "

" Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake. "

" You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. "

Thomas J. Watson

Success

Failure

" The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. "

" In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront. "