“As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.”
— Henry Kravis
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“Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.”
— Tony Richardson
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“There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.”
— Max Beerbohm
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“You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater – why the better it is for all of us.”
— Jerome Lawrence
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“We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.”
— John B. S. Haldane
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“The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.”
— Elias Canetti
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“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.”
— Fred Allen
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“The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.”
— Earl Warren
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“We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.”
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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“African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.”
— Xavier Becerra
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“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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