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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success – because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump thats disguised as failure. – Naveen Jain

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, youre not really successful. – John Larroquette

Mr. Gonzales failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General. – Daniel Inouye

Its a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. – John Hersey

Ive learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when youll feel like youre a failure or when youre disappointed in yourself. – Bryce Dallas Howard

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because its beautiful, its tough, its buried in our mythic, childhood memories. Its covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. – Greg Bear

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldnt handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasnt meant to be. – Christie Brinkley

When I got Jacobs Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasnt allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and Id be,out of there. – Elizabeth Pena

Yknow, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. – Paul Twitchell

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washingtons failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country. – Ed Case

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if youd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now… unless youve signed to a big label, youre a failure now. – Mike Peters

Our managers hadnt had that kind of success – the record company hadnt, we hadnt – and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasnt it would be some kind of failure. – Roland Gift

With engineering, I view this years failure as next years opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. – Gordon Moore

I simply dont believe in failure. In itself, it doesnt exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail. – Alice Foote MacDougall

At the root of many a womans failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. – Robert Farrar Capon

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways its better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life. – Michael Crawford

We are equally glad and surprised at Winstons return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure. – Shane Leslie

Theres tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it. – Chuck Barris

Dont take too much comfort in the fact that youre successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. Theres no surety in life. – Michael Savage

Theres only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and thats if we quit. – Craig Breedlove