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We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

* We have come this far always believing that justice would somehow prevail. This is the burden, this is the promise, and THIS is why we will not fail.

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.