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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. (Quote by - Dorothea Brande)

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

A life which does not go into action is a failure. (Quote by - Arnold J. Toynbee)

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. (Quote by - Mia Hamm)

Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first. (Quote by - Aulus Persius Flaccus)

Failed the bright promise of your early day? (Quote by - Bishop Reginald Heber)

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. (Quote by - Og Mandino)

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. (Quote by - Robert Burns)

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. (Quote by - Arsene Wenger)

You won't skid if you stay in a rut. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. (Quote by - Colin Powell)

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. (Quote by - Ross Perot)

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. (Quote by - Abraham Joshua Heschel)

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. (Quote by - Tom Hopkins)

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)

Failure too is a form of death. (Quote by - Graham Greene)

One failure is worth seven and a half successes. (Quote by - Eli Khamarov)

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure. (Quote by - Alan Rickman)

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. (Quote by - Harvey Fierstein)

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. (Quote by - Hideki Tojo)

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. (Quote by - Gary Ryan Blair)

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