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  Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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• Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

  Scott Adams

  Happiness, Success, Hope

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• Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.

  Mother Teresa

  Encouragement, Community, Mind

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.45, New World Library

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• It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

  Anne Baxter

  Inspiring, Phoenix, Bird

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• It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Morning, Determined

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• The only failure is not to try.

  George Clooney

  Inspiring, Perseverance, Trying

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• Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspiring, Soccer, Football

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• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Passion, Self Control

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• We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Art, Science

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• The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

  Michael Korda

  Successful, People, Succeed

  "Success!". Book by Michael Korda (p.240), 1977.

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• One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

  Thomas Sowell

  Trust, People, Appreciate

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• It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

  Gore Vidal

  Envy, Political, Politics

  Quoted in Newport (R.I.) Daily News, 3 Nov. 1978

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• Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

  Daniel Webster

  4th Of July, Energy, Want

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• Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Jobs, Stay Positive

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• Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Horse, Fear

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• But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 16, 2010

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• Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

  Gena Showalter

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

  Gena Showalter (2011). “Twisted”, p.573, Harlequin

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• Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Christian, Life And Love

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• You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

  Seth Godin

  Fear, Ideas, Willing

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.182, Penguin

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• Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, Acceptance, People

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• Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Learning, Errors, Admitting

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Doe, He Man

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Courage, Inspiration, Character

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• Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

  Josephus Daniels

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Men, Worst Enemy, Doubt

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