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Success is 99 percent failure.

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Rupert Holmes

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.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Eric Hoffer

Failure

Loneliness

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Eric Hoffer

Failure

Expression

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

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.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

Failure

Adversity

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hill