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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
-Walter Brunell
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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.
-Frank Burford
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver
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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
-Johnny Cash
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
-Ilka Chase
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
-Lord Chesterfield
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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
-J. Richard Clarke
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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 Clemenceau
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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
-Edwin Louis Cole
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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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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.
-E. V. Cooke
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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-Francis Crawford
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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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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
-Sir Humphrey Davy
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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
-Walt Disney
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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
-Edward Dowden
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
-Alexander Dumas
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
-George Eliot
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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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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
-George Eliot
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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.
-Ted W. Engstrom
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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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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
-William Feather
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Books about Failure
