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Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes, and for your failures. You can't go blaming others, or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.

People are afraid to think, or they don't know how. They fail to realize that, while emotions can't be suppressed, the mind can be strengthened. All over the world people are seeking peace of mind, but there can be no peace of mind without strength of mind.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!

People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand. . . . If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.

Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.

Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.