Failure Quotes, Sayings about failing

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Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

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Disappointments are like road bumps, they slow us down a bit, but we will enjoy the smooth roads afterwards.

Submitted by Genalin Sarcepuedes.

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My reputation grows with every failure.
- George Bernard Shaw

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Failures and problems are not the things to be scared of, they can lead to breakthroughs and great discoveries.

Submitted by Genalin Sarcepuedes.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Anonymous

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
- Walter Brunell

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A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
- Robert Browning

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If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.
- Walter Reuther

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Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen.
- Kevin Costner

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If your not planning for success, you might just as well plan for failure

Submitted by Martin Dansky.

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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
- James Russell Lowell

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You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure.
- George Cukor

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Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
- Ambrose Bierce

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Anonymous

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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- Charles F. Kettering

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Failure is always an option.
- Adam Savage

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

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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
- Zig Ziglar

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The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
- Sven Goran Eriksson

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A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
- Elmer G. Letterman

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There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
- Edward

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
- John Dewey

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
- Charles F. Kettering

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Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
- Douglas Wood

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