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Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
Sep 10, 2025
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).
We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
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.
Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
Whenever you fall, pick something up.
We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
success is 99% failure
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
Paralyze resistance with persistence.
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.