“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.”
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“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
“The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.”
“Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.”
“Failure is the path of lease persistence.”
“All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”
“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
“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.”
“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
“My reputation grows with every failure.”
“Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.”
“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”
“Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.”
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”