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It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. -- Carol Alt
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. -- John Burroughs
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. -- Wynonna Judd
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done. -- Paul Auster
What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting. -- Bernie Siegel
I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport. -- Mike Krzyzewski
I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. -- Sara Blakely
I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business. -- David Walliams
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things. -- Peter Morgan
Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance. -- Daley Thompson
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter. -- Deborah Moggach
The only failure is not trying. -- Robin Sharma
Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding -- Sara Blakely
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying. -- Ron Dellums
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle! -- Sanya Richards-Ross
Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park. -- Michael Jordan
Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying. -- Myles Munroe
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. -- William J. Clinton
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. -- Michael Jordan
The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying. -- Seth Godin
I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying. -- Ronda Rousey
Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place. -- Marie Forleo
Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. -- Sara Blakely
I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake. -- Guy Burnet
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal -- Carol Alt
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. -- Jasper Fforde
Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself. -- Sara Blakely
We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying! -- Joyce Meyer
If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying. -- Kevin Heath
I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art. -- Robert Piper
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. Skinner
They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying -- Thomas A. Edison

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