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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

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

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

If we do not succeed we run the risk of failure.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

I do not want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Translation is the art of failure.

I have probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I do not want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Failure is a part of success.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.