Quotations on Failure
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
-Thomas Edison
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
-Ilka Chase
Whoever said, it's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.
-Anonymous
Failure isn't making a mistake. Failure is not cashing in on it.
-Elbert Hubbard
Failure isn't falling down. It's staying down.
-Mary Pickford
If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
-Anonymous
You've failed many times, although you may not remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't you? Did you hit the ball the first time you swung the bat? Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot. R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on. English novelist, John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs. Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
-Anonymous
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
-Unknown
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
-Babe Ruth
The only way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
-Thomas J. Watson
There is no failure except no longer trying.
-Elbert Hubbard
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-Bill Cosby
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than be a success at something I hate.
-George Burns
If you have made mistakes . . . there is always another chance for you . . . you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford
There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.
-Kyle Rote, Jr.
You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.
-Joe Falcon
What would you attempt to do if you knew you that you could not fail?
-Robert Schuller
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
-Benjamin Franklin

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