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Failure

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Kaufman, Herbert

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Strindberg, J. August

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Burford, Frank

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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.

Tracy, Brian

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.

Loelia, Duchess

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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.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

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Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Salak, John Charles

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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.

Waitley, Denis

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

J.K. Rowling

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Lutzer, Erwin W.

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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.

Lao-Tzu

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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.

Robbins, Anthony

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

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People don't fail, they give up

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Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Riis, Jacob

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

James, William

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Carver, George Washington

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Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell