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When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I was not allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I do be,'out of there.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

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

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

Nothing fails like failure.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

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.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

I have criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There is plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It is not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That is how we are gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you are a failure now.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it was not it would be some kind of failure.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.