Failure proverbs

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◆ Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge99

◆ You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

- Maxwell Maltz99

◆ It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

- J. K. Rowling99

◆ Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

- Steve Jobs99

◆ Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

- Donald Trump99

◆ Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

- Og Mandino99

◆ Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

- Wilma Rudolph99

◆ You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

- E. O. Wilson99

◆ My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

- B. F. Skinner99

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

- Thomas A. Edison99

◆ Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

- Richard Branson99

◆ Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

- Swami Sivananda99

◆ Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

- John Wooden99