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FAILURESo what if I fail. Failure provides valuable feedback about what works and what doesn't. With the knowledge gained, I can make more intelligent choices next time and achieve even greater success. Failure is not a dead end. It is simply a rest area on the road to success...an area for me to stop, rejuvenate, evaluate and then keep driving. "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) "To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment." (James Allen) "You win only if you aren't afraid to lose." (Rocky Aoki) "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." (Steve Bartkowski) "Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure." (Kenneth Boulding) "Failure is an event, never a person." (William D. Brown) "Failure is the tuition you pay for success." (Walter Brunell) "Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying." (Frank Burford) "Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." (George Washington Carver) "You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there." (Edwin Louis Cole) "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." (Confucius) "You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace." (E. V. Cooke) "You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." (Walt Disney) "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." (Ella Fitzgerald) "He's no failure. He's not dead yet." (William Lloyd George) "Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction." (Charles J. Givens) "The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving." (Roberto Goizueta) "Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success." (Thomas C. Haliburton) "Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure." (S. I. Hayakawa) "When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal." (Napoleon Hill) "Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on." (Tom Hobson) "Success is 99 percent failure." (Soichiro Honda) "I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying." (Tom Hopkins) "There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose." (Elbert Hubbard) "There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life." (Thomas H. Huxley) "There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self." (William James) "The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds." (Lloyd Jones) "Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail." (Charles F. Kettering) "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." (Abraham Lincoln) "In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." (Cassius Longinus) "You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose." (Charles Lynch) "Many a man never fails because he never tries." (Norman Macewan) "Losing is a part of winning." (Dick Munro) "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) "Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes." (Rick Pitino) "If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself." (Dr. Porsche) "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." (African Proverb) "Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet." (German Proverb) "If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win." (Walter Reuther) "I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy." (Anthony Robbins) "Men do not fail; they give up trying." (Elihu Root) "Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." (John Charles Salak) "If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless." (Robert H. Schuller) "The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed." (Richard Brinsley Sheridan) "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient." (Sri Swami Sivananda) "It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders." (Ben Stein) "If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see." (Richard Martin Stern) "Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits." (Robert Louis Stevenson) "Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces." (Joseph Sugarman) "I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody." (Herbert B. Swope) "Men are born to succeed, not to fail." (Henry David Thoreau) "Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try." (Source Unknown) "If you've never failed you've never tried." (Source Unknown) "When you fall, don't get up empty handed." (Source Unknown) (You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour." (Source Unknown) "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." (Denis Waitley) "The only true failure lies in failure to start." (Harold Blake Walker) "The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure." (Gerald. N. Weiskott) Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the "impossible," we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish. (Dr. C. E. Welch) "He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts." (Richard Whately) "Every failure is a step to success." (William Whewell) "Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness." (Oprah Winfrey) "Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street." (Zig Ziglar) "The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top." (Joyce Brothers) "One fails forward toward success." (Charles F. Kettering) "Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the greatmen and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that." (Carlton Young) "I'd rather be a failure at something I lovethan a success at something I hate." (George Burns) "The last time you failed, did you stop trying because you failed -- or did you fail because you stopped trying?" (Unknown) "If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." (Mary Pickford) "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." (F. Scott Fitzgerald) "Failure is the beginning of growth, not the beginning of the end." (Unknown) "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." (Unknown) "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open forus." (Alexander Graham Bell) "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." (Art Linkletter) "I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." (Thomas Edison) "Not failure, but low aim, is crime." (James Russell Lowell) "No man fails who does his best." (Orison Swett Marden) "No man is a failure who is enjoying life." (William Feather) |