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Failure

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. – Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. – Author Unknown

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. – Abraham Lincoln

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. – Benjamin Franklin

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. – C. S. Lewis

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. – Oscar Wilde

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. – Thomas Sowell

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. – Sivananda

Remember that failure is an event, not a person. – Zig Ziglar

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. – Zig Ziglar

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. – Colin Powell

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. – Zig Ziglar

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 being nothing. – Denis Waitley

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. – Tony Robbins

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. – Thomas A. Edison

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. – Wilma Rudolph

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. – J. K. Rowling

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. – Thomas A. Edison