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Failure

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill

Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something. – Morihei Ueshiba

My reputation grows with every failure. – George Bernard Shaw

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. – Jim Rohn

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. – Elbert Hubbard

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. – Napoleon Hill

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? – Ernest Hemingway

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. – Barack Obama

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. – Jawaharlal Nehru

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. – Lyndon B. Johnson

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. – Lucille Ball

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. – Malcolm X

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. – Ambrose Bierce

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. – John Burroughs

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. – Florence Scovel Shinn

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. – Charles Stanley

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. – Kin Hubbard

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success. – Og Mandino

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. – Bryant H. McGill