#failure

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#approached #backwards #basic #failure #get

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#art #caused #direction #disappointment #drove

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure. ↗

— William Hurt

#failure #i #make #me #people

Sometimes, leaders' failures can cost these young people's lives. ↗

— King Hussein

#failures #leaders #lives #people #sometimes

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated. ↗

— Kathy Ireland

#education #failure #i #i am #look

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#inspirational

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure. ↗

— Maude Adams

#attempt #complete #course #failure #first

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. ↗

— Carol Alt

#attaining #failure #goal #risking #something

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory? ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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