“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.”
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“At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.”
“Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.”
“I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.”
“Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.”
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?”
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
“Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.”
“Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.”
“Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.”
“Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.”
“There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.”
“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
“I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.”
“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.”
“A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.”
“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.”
“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”