Failure Quotes, Sayings about failing

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The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
- Sven Goran Eriksson

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Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.
- Anonymous

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There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.
- Anonymous

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The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
- Anonymous

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Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
- Anonymous

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Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
- Anonymous

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
- Anonymous

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A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.
- Anonymous

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Success builds character, failure reveals it.
- Anonymous

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Anonymous

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
- Anonymous

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Anonymous

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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
- Anonymous

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Disappointments are like road bumps, they slow us down a bit, but we will enjoy the smooth roads afterwards.

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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
- James Russell Lowell

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“I didn’t fail because I lost, I failed because I gave up.”

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Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
- Charlie Chaplin

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There are two kinds of failures those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is Try to please everybody.
- Herbert B. Swope

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I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoyed the process.
- Oprah Winfrey

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Failures and problems are not the things to be scared of, they can lead to breakthroughs and great discoveries.

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

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A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
- Robert Browning

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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
- Zig Ziglar

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

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You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure.
- George Cukor

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Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
- Burt Rutan

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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- Buddha

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The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
- Colin R. Davis

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Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
- Ambrose Bierce

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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
- Zig Ziglar

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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
- Havelock Ellis

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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
- George Edward Woodberry

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Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen.
- Kevin Costner

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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
- Max Beerbohm

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
- Madame de Stael

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A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
- Elmer G. Letterman

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Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
- Soichiro Honda

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