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" The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure. "

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" I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure. "

Emanuel Steward

" I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form. "

" When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go. "

" You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency. "

" If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows. "

" I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.' "

" 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

" Without failure there is no achievement. "

John C. Maxwell

" Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. "

" I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. "

" In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely. "

" A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. "

" I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules. "

Malcolm Mclaren

" Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. "

" What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch? "

" I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense. "

" I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative. "

" Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. "

" Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. "

" If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States? "

" What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan? "

" Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. "

Lee H. Hamilton

" If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes. "

" Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. "

Gary Ryan Blair

" When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human. "

" What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure. "

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

" Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are. "

" Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments. "

" If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. "