Failure

(20 votes)   If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(353 votes)   A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(314 votes)   Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(270 votes)   I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Hank Aaron
1934-, American Baseball Player

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(246 votes)   Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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(210 votes)   Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(210 votes)   There is no failure. Only feedback.

Robert Allen

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(209 votes)   The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

Karl Albrecht
American Management Consultant, Author

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(206 votes)   You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Rocky Aoki

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(183 votes)   They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Thomas B. Aldrich
1836-1907, American Writer, Editor

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(153 votes)   I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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(144 votes)   People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(136 votes)   There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(133 votes)   Turn your scars into stars

Robert H. Schuller
1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader

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(110 votes)   We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

David Grayson
1870-1946, American Journalist and Writer

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