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"Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces." »Joseph Sugarman
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"Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words." »Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
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"failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." »Denis Watley
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"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure." »Joseph Heller
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"The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"
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"Would you like me to give you a formula for...success It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"A failure is not one who fails, a failure is one who blames others for their own failure." »Anthony Girit
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"Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success." »Denis Watley
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"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does" »Richard Exely
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"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach." »Roger von Oech
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"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." »Winston Churchill
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"The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure." »Gerald N. Weiskott
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"The only real failure in life is the failure to try." »Unknown
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"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"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
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"Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow. And since the only real freedom a person has is the choice of what thoughts he will feed to his Inner-Consciousness he is totally responsible for the outcomes he gets." »Sidney Madwed
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"Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." »Bill Cosby
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"Learning is never failure." »Cori McGehee
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"He's no failure. He's not dead yet." »William Lloyd George
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"She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all." »Paul Aubuchon
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"It's not failure, but low aim is crime." »Lowell
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"Trying is the first step towards failure." »Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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"The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something." »Andy Anderson
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"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style." »Quentin Crisp
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"....it is better to succeed with success than failure." »George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
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"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." »J Danforth Quayle
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"Success is never final, but failure can be." »Bill Parcells
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"You always pass failure on the way to success." »Mickey Rooney
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