“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”
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“That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.”
“Translation is the art of failure.”
“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.”
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
“In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.”
“If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.”
“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
“You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. 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.”
“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”
“It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.”
“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”
“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.”
“The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.”
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.”
“People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!”
“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”
“Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.”
“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”
“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.”
“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
“Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.”