Saturday, November 04, 2006

FAILURE

Failure

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Ferdinand Foch


Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb


If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
Collins, Marva


I don't know the the key to success,

but the key to failure is trying to please everbody.
Cosby, Bill


It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
Lombardi, Vince


There is always another chance...

This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down.
Pickford, Mary


Far better it is 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 that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Roosevelt, Theodore


Nobody makes a greater mistake than

he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke


If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.

But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt


Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes.

You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
Aretha Franklin


It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers --

they help us to learn.
John Bradshaw


The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one.
Elbert Hubbard


So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can.

Because that's where you will find success. On the far side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.


We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success;

we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do;

and probably he who never make a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles


A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw


To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard


It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli


There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth -

not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha


An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
O. A. Battista


I have made mistakes,

but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
James Gordon Bennett


Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow.

Pain nourishes your courage.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore


All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Winston Churchill


The way a man plays a game shows some of his character.

The way he loses shows all of it.
submitted by Lauren


Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize

how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison


Our greatest glory is not in never failing,

but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


If you don't accept failure as a possibility,

you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -

you don't take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter


For every failure, there's an alternative course of action.

You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash


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


A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure

until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs


There are two kinds of failures:

The man who will do nothing he is told,

and the man who will do nothing else.
Perle Thompson


If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas Watson, Sr


Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill


It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.
SueEllen Fried


Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford


The majority of men meet with failure because

of their lack of persistence in creating new plans

to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill


I honestly think it is better to be a failure at

something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns


Many people dream of success. To me,

success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
Soichiro Honda


Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people

who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver


No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move.

Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Amar Gopal Bose


He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller


Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
Walter Brunell


I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me

. . Failure always made me try harder next time.
Michael Jordan


Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
German Proverb


Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote


There is something good in all seeming failures.

You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sri Swami Sivananda



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