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No man can be a failure if he thinks he is a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I am proof against that word failure. I have seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Do not fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.