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"Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it."	Michael J. Gelb
"He's no failure. He's not dead yet."	William Lloyd George
"Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success."	William S. Gilbert
"Falling Doesn't Make You a Failure, Staying Down Does."	God's Little Instruction Book
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you."	Robert F. Goheen
"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you."	Robert F. Goheen
"The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account."	Richard R. Grant
"Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter."	Henry Anatole Grunwald
"The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach."	Edgar Albert Guest
"I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true."	Arsenio Hall
"Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping."	Augustus W. Hare
"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity."	Frances Watkins Harper
"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."	Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
"Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals."	Václav Havel
"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'"	S(amuel) I(chiye) Hayakawa
"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure."	Joseph Heller
"Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works."	Robert Hewison
"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit."	Napolean Hill
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Abraham Lincoln	Aleister Crowley	Alice Kahn
Anais Nin	André Maurois	Andy Anderson
Annie Dillard	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	Aristotle
Arsenio Hall	Augustus W. Hare	Author Unknown
A. E. Hotchner	Barbara Grizzuti Harrison	Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Berthe Morisot	Bill Cosby
Bruce Lee	Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Franklin Kettering
Clare Boothe Luce	Dorothea Broude	Dorthea Bragg
Douglas Couplan	Dr. Joyce	Edgar Albert Guest
Edward Eggleston	Elbert Hubbard	Epictetus
Erich Fromm	Flower A. Newhouse	Frances Watkins Harper
Francois Arouet	George Burns	George Eliot
Georges Clemenceau	George Crane	George Stanley McGovern
George Washington Carver	God's Little Instruction Book	Gérard Depardieu
Harold Loukes	Harrison Ford	Helen Gurley Brown
Henry Ford	Henry Anatole Grunwald	Herbert Kaufman
Herman Melville	Hoshang N. Akhtar	Humphrey Davy
H. Stanley Judd	James 2:10 Bible	James Albert Michener
James Arthur Baldwin	James Lane Allen	Jean Cocteau
Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Dewey
John Keats	John Burroughs	John Christian Bovee
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	Joseph Heller
Lao-Tzu	Lloyd Jones	Louise Nevelson
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Martin Luther
Mary Bertone	Mary Catherine Bateson	Max Beerbohm
Michael Eisner	Michael J. Gelb	Mike Ditka
Moshe Arens	Napolean Hill	Nicholas Murray Butler
Norman Cousins	Orison Swett Marden	Paulson Frenckner
Paul Aubuchon	Philip	Philip Caldwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ray Dickinson	Richard Exely
Richard Hofstadter	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Richard R. Grant
Robert Browning	Robert Albert Bloch	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert F. Goheen	Robert Hewison	Robert Logan
Rod Hughes	Rosalynn Smith Carter	Rush Limbaugh
Samuel Beckett	Scott Adams	Siddha Nagarjuna
Sir James Matthew Barrie	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Loren
S(amuel) I(chiye) Hayakawa	Ted W. Engstrom	Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison	Tim McMahon
Tom Hopkins	Toni Cade Bambera	Truman Capote
Ty Howard	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Václav Havel
Warren G. Bennis	William Faulkner	William H(oward) Gass
William James "Will" Durant	William John Bennett	William Lloyd George
William S. Gilbert	Woody Allen	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	(John) Calvin Coolidge	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling