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Failure

Failure is an event, never a person. – William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!

There is no failure except in no longer trying. – Elbert Hubbard

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett

One fails forward toward success. – Charles F. Kettering

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. – Anton Chekhov

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? – G.K. Chesterton

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. – Thomas Edison

There are defeats more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. – Charles Horton Cooley

Whenever you leave behind failure you’re doing good. If you think everything you’ve done is great, you’re probably dumb. – Louis C.K.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” – S.I. Hayakawa

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. – Elbert Hubbard

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. – William Feather

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford

There is no failure. Only feedback. – Robert Allen

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. – Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air, 1946

You always pass failure on your way to success. – Mickey Rooney