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Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Business
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

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

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Capitalism

• My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Friend
  • Failure
  • Years

• It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

  

  Edmond H. Fischer
  • Failure
  • Teacher
  • Said

• Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Positive

• The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Love
  • Power
  • America

• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Failure
  • Content

• Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one. (15)

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Failure

• Well, I could have been a famous singerIf I had someone else's voiceBut failure's always sounded betterLet's fuck it up, boys, make some noise!

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Famous

• The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

  

  Bruno Bettelheim
  • Great
  • Children
  • Fear

• I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

  

  James Rothman
  • Success
  • Failure

• A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

  

  Charles Inglis
  • War
  • Failure

• The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Failure

• I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Parents

• Success and failure are equally surprising.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl
  • Success
  • Failure

• Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Education
  • Failure

• Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit many more clubs than Rangers. Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.

  

  Bill Struth
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Philosophy

• One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Way
  • Late
  • Push

• Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • True
  • Energy

• Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

  

  Sumner Redstone
  • Failure
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