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" You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. "

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" After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters, women - but was met with a counter-narrative that, in fact, it was Romney's failure to be conservative enough that led to a depressed Republican base. "

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" One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken. "

" Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you. "

" Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure. "

" Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. "

" I always feel like a vague failure in L.A. - it always makes me feel like I should somehow be different than I am. And I don't know why. "

" I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do. "

" I've struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a 'prison of perfectionism,' holding myself to a standard I couldn't possibly live up to. Then I became a mom, and all of a sudden, there arose even more opportunities for failure. "

" The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. "

" The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The only failure is not to try. "

" Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute. "

" It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there. "

" I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. "

" Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. "

" Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure. "

" When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure. "

" I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure. "

" I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" A goal properly set is halfway reached. "

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

" We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition. "

Edward McKendree Bounds

" 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. "

" Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. "

" There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. "

" Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown. "

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

" I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. "

" You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood. "

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