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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

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

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.

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.

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

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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

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

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

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

Success builds character, failure reveals it.

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 is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

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.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

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

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

success is 99% failure

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.