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The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.

The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.

The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

The only failure is not to try.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don't know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don't, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.