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  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

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• He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

  Paul Tillich

  Design, Risk, Failing

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• Success is never ending, failure is never final.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  Robert H. Schuller (1996). “Prayer: My Soul's Adventure with God”, Image

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• No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Time, Mistake

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.112, Penguin

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• It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Expression, Land, Pioneers

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

  Tennessee Williams

  Night, Typewriters, Play

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• No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.

  Chris Hardwick

  Inspiring, Zero, Famous Inspirational

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.37, Penguin

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• Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women". Book by Armand Eisen (p. 15), 1992.

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• We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Success, Excuse, Reason

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.310, Wordsworth Editions

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• You're never a loser until you quit trying.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

  Paul Polman

  Business, Achievement, Target

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• You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.

  Steffi Graf

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Attitude, Acceptance

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

  Bruce Barton

  Grace, Style, Pay

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• Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

  John C. Maxwell

  Teacher, Life And Love, Learning

  Twitter post from Mar 7, 2016

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• I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Break Up, Breakup

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 20, 2016

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• I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Way, Martial Arts

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  Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

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• There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899 See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 18

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• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, Philosophical, Grief

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  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

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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