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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Thomas Sowell

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The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

John Updike

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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.

B. F. Skinner

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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

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There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Michael J. Fox

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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs

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There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Elon Musk

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Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

John C. Maxwell

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Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

Brennan Manning

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When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner

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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

George Burns

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For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

Jason Silva

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Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.

Winston Churchill

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Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho

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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Johnny Cash

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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley

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We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Henry Rollins

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