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Denis Watley

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Joseph Heller

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Would you like me to give you a formula for...success It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Richard Exely

Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does

Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Roger von Oech

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Denis Watley

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Winston Churchill

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.

Gerald N. Weiskott

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Robert H. Schuller

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

John Keats

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.

Lowell

It's not failure, but low aim is crime.

Bill Cosby

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

Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Susan B. Anthony

Failure is impossible.

Robert Logan

Failure is a path, not a destination.

William Lloyd George

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

William Faulkner

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Bruce Lee

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

William Whewell

Every failure is a step to success...

Louise Nevelson

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

J Danforth Quayle

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

Unknown

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.

Quentin Crisp

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

Bill Parcells

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Andy Anderson

The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something.

Daniel Webster

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Mike Ditka

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Mike Ditka

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

George Burns

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

Berthe Morisot

The love of nature is consolation against failure.

B. C. Forbes

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

S Hayakawa

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'

Jules Renard

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Dottie Walters

Failure I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Anon.

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rod Hughes

I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance.

George Burns

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

Mary Pickford

This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Earl Wilson

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

George E. Woodberry

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Hoshang N. Akhtar

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

John Burroughs

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Robert Browning

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Benjamin Disraeli

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Anon.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Michael Eisner

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Edward Eggleston

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consid

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

The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Trying is the first step towards failure.

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

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

Drive A: format failure, formatting C: instead...

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Who is Gen Failure & why is he reading my hard drive?

Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

General Failure reading John Dvorak

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

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

General Failure reading drive A: Please remove your fist

Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

General Condom Failure:(A)bort (R)etry (I)gnore

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

"Dave, I have a projected failure on the alpha-echo three

Divorce is defeat...It's an adult failure. Lucille Ball

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.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man).

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should re

"Dave, I have a projected failure on the alpha-echo three five unit within 72 hours..."

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.