Failure

Herman Melville
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Roy T. Bennett
“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” — Roy T. Bennett
Elon Musk
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” — Elon Musk
Robert Browning
“A minute's success pays the failure of years.” — Robert Browning
Oprah Winfrey
“Failure is a great teacher. If you're open to it every mistake has a lesson to offer.” — Oprah Winfrey
Brian Tracy
“Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.” — Brian Tracy
Og Mandino
“Failure is the highway to success.” — Og Mandino
Winston Churchill
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” — Winston Churchill
Thomas Edison
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” — Thomas Edison
Unknown
“He who fails to plan, plans to fail.” — Unknown
Naval Ravikant
“Good entrepreneurs don't fail because they stay at it.” — Naval Ravikant
John Wooden
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” — John Wooden
Les Brown
“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.” — Les Brown
Maxime Lagace
“Scared people want comfort and certainty so they avoid failure. People living fully seek challenges because this is where they feel alive.” — Maxime Lagace
Winston Churchill
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
Hans Christian Andersen
“Where words fail, music speaks.” — Hans Christian Andersen
James Allen
“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.” — James Allen
Og Mandino
“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.” — Og Mandino
Oprah Winfrey
“Failure is just information and an opportunity to change your course.” — Oprah Winfrey
Norman Vaughan
“Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
Brian Tracy
“Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want success faster, double your rate of failure.” — Brian Tracy
John Lennon
“A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.” — John Lennon
Jack Butcher
“Failure is feedback. Learn from it and move on.” — Jack Butcher
Simon Sinek
“To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.” — Simon Sinek
Og Mandino
“Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day!” — Og Mandino
Jack Butcher
“When you view failure as feedback, you get more done. When you view failure as a finality, you get nothing done.” — Jack Butcher
Benjamin Franklin
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” — Benjamin Franklin
Coco Chanel
“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.” — Coco Chanel
Morihei Ueshiba
“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” — Morihei Ueshiba
Confucius
“A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.” — Confucius
Robert F. Kennedy
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” — Robert F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
“Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.” — Ronald Reagan
Nikola Tesla
“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. ” — Nikola Tesla
Theodore Roosevelt
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” — Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
Tony Robbins
“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.” — Tony Robbins
Oprah Winfrey
“Failing is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey
Michael Jordan
“The key to success is failure.” — Michael Jordan
Elbert Hubbard
“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.” — Elbert Hubbard
Colin Powell
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.” — Colin Powell
Thomas Edison
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison
Genghis Khan
“an action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure. ” — Genghis Khan
Colin R. Davis
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis
Socrates
“Falling down is not failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.” — Socrates
Herman Melville
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
Robert Kiyosaki
“People who avoid failure also avoid success.” — Robert Kiyosaki
Steve Harvey
“Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.” — Steve Harvey
Henry David Thoreau
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” — Henry David Thoreau
Napoleon Hill
“Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” — Napoleon Hill

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