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I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

At first I was not sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I have done has been a failure.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

It is probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it is a failure.

If you've gone into a marriage and you have not been clear about how you are going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

You can not have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Failure Does not kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

It is a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

I have had a lot of success I have had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

There is a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.