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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
-Erwin W. Lutzer
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You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.
-Charles Lynch
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Many a man never fails because he never tries.
-Norman Macewan
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
-Og Mandino
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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.
-Katherine Mansfield
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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
-Greil Marcus
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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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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.
-Orison Swett Marden
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
-Orison Swett Marden
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Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
-William Moulton Marston
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Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
-Dan Mckinnon
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
-Herman Melville
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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.
-Thomas Merton
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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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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
-Henry Miller
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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.
-Joaquin Miller
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Losing is a part of winning.
-Dick Munro
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
-Al Neuharth
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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 Milhous Nixon
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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.
-General George Patton
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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
-H. Ross Perot
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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.
-Wilferd A. Peterson
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
-Wendell Phillips
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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
-Francis Picabia
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Books about Failure
