“In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.”
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“Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.”
“Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.”
“My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.”
“With failure, you just try again.”
“Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.”
“We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.”
“The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.”
“All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.”
“As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.”
“But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.”
“When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.”
“The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.”
“We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.”
“Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.”
“I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.”
“As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.”
“How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.”
“I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.”
“Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.”
“When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.”
“In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.”
“If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.”
“Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.”