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You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.
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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.
If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.
There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.
Past failures are guideposts to success.
Failure is the path of least persistence
Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.
Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.
People don't fail, they give up
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
If you've never failed you've never tried.
A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.
Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try
The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Richard Whately