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Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
I want you to know that focusing on someone else's failure or success is the wrong way to live.
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.
Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
I am not worried about failure. I have made my career in this industry, so it does not scare me.
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.
Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.
Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success
When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.
I know that there is failure, but if you're prepared, you can accept whatever happens in the ring.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.
The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.
Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.
When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.