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Failure

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

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Best Quotes about Failure

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Barton, Bruce

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.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Grayson, David

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Albrecht, Karl

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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

Reuther, Walter

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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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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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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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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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

Keats, John

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Miller, Henry

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Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Marden, Orison Swett

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People don't fail, they give up

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Kettering, Charles F.

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Ford, Henry

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

Phillips, Wendell

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

Patton, George S.

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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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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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Cole, Edwin Louis

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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The only true failure lies in failure to start.

Walker, Harold Blake

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Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

South, Bishop Robert

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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats