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Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

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.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am I afraid of?" I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.

I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

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

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

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.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

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

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.

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 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)

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 skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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

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

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

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 great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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