A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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…
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure…
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You a…
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.