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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James Baldwin
Turn your scars into stars
Robert H. Schuller
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
Ted W. Engstrom
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
Norman Macewan
I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.
Ron Perlman
And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
Harvey Korman
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
William Hurt
Men do not fail; they give up trying.
Elihu Root
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Joseph Sugarman
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
Richard Branson
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill