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Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail? Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold cereals were rejected by consumers. More often new products fail because they are not new enough.

Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

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.

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

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation.

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is...unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility.

A broken soul is like an alabaster box that contains expensive perfume. God recognizes its sweet aroma, our personal composition of failure and frustration, through which He chooses to teach us humility, patience, and hope.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

999 times I failed in vain, In next attempt I won and Unlocked the chain. Then flew above the clouds, got rid of rain, Finally clutched success and felt pity on pain.

A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!

Accepting complete responsibility is the unsung character trait of those who find uncommon success, and failure to accept responsibility is a common trait of those who end up with a mediocre life.

Achieving your goal should always be of secondary importance. Your focus should be on becoming the kind of person deserving of the goal.

Achieving a goal is not the most important part of the process. The destination should never be your primary purpose or objective.

Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes.

Achievers are biased towards action despite any fear, and this courage sets them apart from others.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system

A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk.

Act in spite of fear and give yourself a chance to live your dreams, it might be the best decision you have ever made. Don’t forget that if you fail, it means you are trying, and if it’s hard it means you are on the right path.

Action is where sacrifice is honoured and where you require persistence and courage to endure all that life throws in your direction.

Adapt to any situation.

A Dreamer fails multiple times. A failure fails only once.

Advice to my younger self: 1 Start where you are with what you have 2 Try not to hurt other people 3 Take more chances 4 If you fail, keep trying

Adversity is an adventure.

A failure only means that you were brave enough to pursue your dreams. Continue being brave. Continue finding your dreams.

A fear of losing, of failure is a fear of success.

A friend once taught me that we'd all live differently if we could live our lives over, but all we can actually do is try to make amends in the future for the past. That means live the best we can right here, right now.