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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.

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in stocking the Universe on the part of the Deity.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

Is not falling down. Failure Is desiring to live Where I have fallen.

I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

It has been said that if you aim at nothing in life, you are likely to hit nothing! I have never had anyone come to me and say, 'Venita, I plan to fail.' Yet I have observed many who failed to plan and who unfortunately met with the same dismal results.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.