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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

I believe only in art and failure.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Failure is always an option.