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Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

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.

Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece.

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.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Success is 99 percent failure.

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

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

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

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

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.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.