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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. (Quote by - John W. Gardner)

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. (Quote by - Michael Korda)

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. (Quote by - Morihei Ueshiba)

There is no failure. Only feedback. (Quote by - Robert Allen)

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. (Quote by - Jack Kerouac)

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. (Quote by - George Eliot)

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. (Quote by - Og Mandino)

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. (Quote by - Doug Coupland)

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid. (Quote by - Amy Sedaris)

With failure, you just try again. (Quote by - Judd Nelson)

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. (Quote by - Sextus Propertius)

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. (Quote by - Davy Crockett)

A minute's success pays the failure of years. (Quote by - Robert Browning)

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. (Quote by - Robert H. Schuller)

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. (Quote by - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. (Quote by - Allan Bloom)

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. (Quote by - George Burns)

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)

He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. (Quote by - Nikki Giovanni)

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)

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