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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Anonymous

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Beverly Sills

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats (1795 - 1821)

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 10-18-05

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)

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