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The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

The only failure is not to try.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

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

The only people who never fail are those who never try

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don't know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don't, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individually or en masse. If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient-or just plain happier-the industrial designer has succeeded.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the beams of light. There is an Arm that never tires, When human strength gives way. There is a Love that never fails, When earthly loves decay.

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

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