Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Every failure is a step to success.
Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life -- that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.
Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.
One who fears failure limits his activities.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
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