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Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.
When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.
The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.
Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.
Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.
You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.
The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
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.
While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.
It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
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.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.