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Success has made failures of many men.
Conflict
Cindy Adams

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Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.
Success
Dr. Marcus Bach

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.
Failure
Sir James M. Barrie

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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Failure
Anne Baxter

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
Failure
Sir Max Beerbohm

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
War
Tony Benn

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Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Destiny
Ambrose Bierce

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.
Success
Louis Binstock

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
Failure
Arthur Bloch

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Never permit failure to become a habit.
Habit
William Frederick Book

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Failure
Kenneth Ewart Boulding

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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Failure
Christian Nevell Bovee

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.
Opportunity
Gene Brown

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Failure is an event, never a person.
Failure
William D. Brown

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A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Success
Robert Browning

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
Failure
Walter Brunell

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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
Risk
James E. Burke

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I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
Passion
George Burns

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The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
Possibilities
Mark Caine

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Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
Decisions
George Canning

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Failure
George Washington Carver

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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
The future
Charlie Chaplin

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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Success
Anton Chekhov

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Failure
Chinese Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun