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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
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George Horace Lorimer Quotes

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You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
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George Cukor Quotes

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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
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Henry Ford Quotes

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Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Samuel Beckett Quotes

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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
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Woody Allen Quotes

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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
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Max Beerbohm Quotes

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The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works.
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William Strong Quotes

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Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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Kenneth Boudling Quotes

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One fails forward toward success.
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Charles F. Kettering Quotes

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I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
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George W. Bush Quotes

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You always pass failure on your way to success.
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Mickey Rooney Quotes

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There is no failure. Only feedback.
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Robert Allen Quotes

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
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William C. Feather Quotes

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We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.
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David Grayson Quotes

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," and what happens when he says, "I am a failure."
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S.I. Hayakawa Quotes

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There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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Failure is an event, never a person.
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William D. Brown Quotes

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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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