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The fearful are the failing. — Sarah Josepha Hale

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of. — Bryan Ferry

People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions. — Isaac Asimov

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success. — Charles Stanley

Wanting to win is what keeps the trade on, If you win, you lose the trade. — Auliq Ice

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through. — Markus Zusak

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. — Sonia Johnson

Don't embrace mediocrity; its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off ... Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey! — Israelmore Ayivor

Failure has its successes. — Brian Howard

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure. — Myles Munroe

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. — Carl Rogers

A strong heart can overcome sickness but those who lost hope can't. — Auliq Ice

She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it. — Jude Morgan

A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. — Chinua Achebe

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them ... — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists. — Ann Voskamp

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. — E. Franklin Frazier

Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is. — Rob Liano

Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality. — Munia Khan

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure. — Jacques Chirac

All you have to do is try. And to me, the worst kind of defeat is not failure per se. It's the decision not to try. — Novak Djokovic

No loss is without opportunity. No failure is without valuable lessons. Plunge in. It will, at worst, be a valuable experience. — Vironika Tugaleva

The only failure is giving up. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you Never Give Up, you can Beat The Best !! — Manu Pratap

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure. — Eiji Yoshikawa

Overcome With Your Failure Is Your Real Success. — Deepak Gupta

Fear and doubt are greater enemies than failure. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. — Charlotte Whitton

Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Talent comes from experience and failure — Richard Branson

There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today. — Noel DeJesus

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself. — Chuck Jones

The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side. — Felix Dzerzhinsky

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Failure inspires winners. Failure defeats losers. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Keep a positive mind. Remember, a failed attempt doesn't make you a failure - giving up does. — Lorii Myers

By absorbing so many books he was trying to purge his own failure as a writer. It wasn't working, but he feared what would happen if he stopped. — Chad Harbach

Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can. — Timothy Ferriss

Failure is an experience, not a definition. — T.W. Zugger

Lots of folks have a hard life. It's an excuse for failure, not a reason. Life is what you make of it." These — Roger W. Buenger

If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful. — Barbara Sher

A failure is only a step on the way to your success. — Yogi Bhajan

Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it. — John C. Maxwell

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

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't be too afraid of failure to learn what you need to learn. — Jennifer Westfeldt

There is not one harsher, more sure-fire way to fail than that of the man who tries to be like Jesus without submitting to Jesus. — Criss Jami

It's not information overload. It's filter failure. — Clay Shirky

There is the world of difference between failing at something and being a failure - but many people do not differentiate. — Ursula Markham

There is no such thing as failure. Everything is a success to whatever degree it is taken. — Morning Sun Yellow Pony

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter. — Richard Whately

The only risk of failure is promotion. — Scott Adams

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve. — Bill Hybels

When you get wisdom, failure and discouragement will get behind you. — Sunday Adelaja

Appear to know only this
never to fail nor fall. — Epictetus

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying. — Ron Dellums

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. — Geoffrey Canada

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. — Karl Liebknecht

In politics, the fruit always turns sour before it can turn ripe. — Marty Rubin

Success, however, does nothing to diminish the knowledge that failure stalks everything you do. — Michael Chabon

I don't believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction. — Geri Jewell

The wisdom from failure is greater than the arrogance of success. — A.J. Garces

No failure is final unless you ratify it. — Richard M. Nixon

You can only greet success when you are ready to say goodbye to failure. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you are not planning for success, then you are planning for failure. — Sunday Adelaja

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future. — Adrian Rogers

Failure is success only when your mission or objective is to fail. — Ben Tolosa

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become. — Tucker Max

Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed. — Whitney Johnson

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. — David Mamet

Failure is ... the highway to success. — Og Mandino

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures. — Mason Cooley

Don't seek a failure-less life.
Wear failure as a badge of honour. Seek a fearless life ! — Manoj Arora

The world will call you a failure. Listen well, then realize, they are wrong. After that, get up and fail better. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers. — Donald J. Trump

Success was individual achievement; failure was a social problem. — Michael Lewis

Those who never trial, never fails. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. — Napoleon Hill

Just because you felt like a failure in the past, doesn't mean you can't get back up again and make something better of your future. — Lara Adrian

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure — Orison Swett Marden

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital. — David Harvey

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try." — Regina King

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure. — Maxwell Maltz

The only person who can make you miserable is yourself, if you hold back because
you're too afraid of failure to take a chance. — Shana Norris

But a man's walking-around body can be a ghost a whole lot easier than his spirit can. — Sarah Porter

The bridge between failure and success is hope. THOMAS JEFFERSON — Dave Ramsey

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. — Edward Dowden

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something. — Scott Berkun

The world screams, 'Stay down, it's safer.' My soul screams, 'So is being dead. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws. — Barack Obama

We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there. — Auliq Ice

If you gone come in second, you're just the first loser! — Tiger Woods

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. — George Cukor

The best defense is great offense ... We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion. — Wayde Goodall

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] — Gail Borden

There are no failures - only feedback. — Richard Bandler

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure. — Robin Hobb

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope