“I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault.”
— Branch Rickey
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“Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.”
— Morton Hunt
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“America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.”
— Toby Young
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“My life has been nothing but a failure.”
— Claude Monet
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“The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.”
— David Sarnoff
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“The failure of the United Nations – My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.”
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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“We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”
— Charles Kettering
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“The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.”
— Neal Boortz
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“Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.”
— Bernard Baruch
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“The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.”
— Hugh Grant
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“Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.”
— Montgomery Clift
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