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Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I do have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority, or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it Does not. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

There is no middle ground in Hollywood you are a failure or you are a success. That mentality is wild.

It is not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We are not afraid of failure.

I find writing very difficult. It is hard and it hurts sometimes, and it is scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.