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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
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A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.
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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Confucius
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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clémenceau
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All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
Robert Frost
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering
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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South
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Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill
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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.
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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
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Everyone pushes a falling fence.
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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
Edward Dahlberg
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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Elbert Hubbard
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar
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Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
John Keats
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon Hill
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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden
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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try
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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
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Failure is the path of least persistence
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
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Failure too is a form of death...
Graham Greene
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Ross Perot
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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.
William James
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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley
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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.
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He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Richard Whately
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Herman Melville
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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
Arthur Miller
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Earl of Chesterfield
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Edison
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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
Tom Hopkins
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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer, as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.
William James
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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton
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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
Tom Hopkins
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats
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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Tony Robbins
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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
Oprah Winfrey
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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. Schuller
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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Seneca the Younger
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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
Tony Robbins
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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
François Fénelon
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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.
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If you've never failed you've never tried.
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Brian Tracy
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
François de La Rochefoucauld
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas Edison
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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.
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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
Orison Swett Marden
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau
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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.
Oscar Wilde
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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
Tony Robbins
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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Michael Korda
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No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
William Ewart Gladstone
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Napoleon Hill
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No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.
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Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Richard Nixon
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
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Past failures are guideposts to success.
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People don't fail, they give up
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Laozi
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Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.
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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.
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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
George Herbert
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Success is the proper utilization of failure.
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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.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.
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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot
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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Francis Picabia
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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
Henry Miller
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