Failure

Japanese Proverb

"Fall down seven times, get up eight times."

— Japanese Proverb

Robert F. Kennedy on Achievement

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

— Robert F. Kennedy

Mary Kay Ash on Failure

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

— Mary Kay Ash

Charles F. Kettering on Failure

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

— Charles F. Kettering

Ambrose on the Will to Win

"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."

— David Ambrose

Browning on Success

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

— Robert Browning

Edison on Success

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

— Thomas A. Edison

Churchill on Success

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

— Sir Winston Churchill

Wisdom Through Failure

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."

— William Saroyan

Ditka on Success and Failure

"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal."

— Mike Ditka

Cosby on Failure and Success

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

— Bill Cosby

Discouraged By a Failure

"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."

— John Keats

Rooney on Success

"You always pass failure on the way to success."

— Mickey Rooney

Crisp on Failure

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

— Quentin Crisp

Formula for Failure

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

— Herbert Bayard Swope

Always Another Chance

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down."

— Mary Pickford

Risk of Failure

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

— Anonymous

Hill on Quitting

"Before success in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do."

— Napoleon Hill

Failure isn't fatal

"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal."

— Mike Ditka

Winston Churchill on Success

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

— Sir Winston Churchill

Way to Success

"You always pass failure on the way to success."

— Mickey Rooney

Minute's Success

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

— Robert Browning

Formula for Failure

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

— Herbert Bayard Swope

Bill Cosby on Success

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

— Bill Cosby

To Risk Nothing

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk
failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing"

— Author Unknown

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