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It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.