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"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."	Scott Adams
"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."	Hoshang N. Akhtar
"To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."	James Lane Allen
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."	Woody Allen
"The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something."	Andy Anderson
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."	Moshe Arens
"What a terrible time this is to be a Christian. The churches have failed and betrayed us, and the ministry preaches hate and murder. If there is a sane and reasoning voice in the Christian church today it is sadly silent."	Francois Arouet
"She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all."	Paul Aubuchon
"He who fails to question is asking for trouble."	Paul Aubuchon
"The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."	James Arthur Baldwin
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."	James Arthur Baldwin
"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality."	Toni Cade Bambera
"We are all failures--at least, the best of us are."	Sir James Matthew Barrie
"The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful."	Mary Catherine Bateson
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."	Samuel Beckett
"It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion."	Max Beerbohm
"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett
"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."	William John Bennett
"The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need."	Warren G. Bennis
"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led."	Warren G. Bennis
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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