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It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. -- Carol Alt
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at. -- Louis C. K.
Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails. -- Greg Berlanti
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes. -- Harvey Mackay
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. -- Amelia Earhart
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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
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
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
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. -- Louis E. Boone
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. -- Jimmy Connors
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. -- Roger von Oech
I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company. -- Lee Scott
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. -- Henry Kravis
You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure. -- Diego Klattenhoff
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. -- W. Clement Stone
I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist. -- John Sherman Cooper
I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God. -- John Piper
It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world. -- Sebastian Thrun
You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side. -- Beau Willimon
The only failure is not trying. -- Robin Sharma
Trying is the first step to failure -- Homer
Trying is the first step toward failure. -- Homer
There is no failure except the failure of trying. -- Elbert Hubbard
The greatest failure in life is to stop trying. -- Napoleon Hill
There is no failure except in no longer trying. -- Chris Bradford
The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying -- John C. Maxwell
Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding -- Sara Blakely
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying. -- Ron Dellums
There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying. -- John Popper
Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle! -- Sanya Richards-Ross
I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you. -- Joyce Meyer
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
Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying. -- Robert M. Hensel
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. -- Michael Jordan
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. -- William J. Clinton
Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place. -- Marie Forleo
I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying. -- Ronda Rousey
The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying. -- Seth Godin
Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. -- Sara Blakely
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. -- Jasper Fforde
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal -- Carol Alt
I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake. -- Guy Burnet
As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying. -- Anna Olson
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. -- Indra Dahal
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -- Bill Cosby
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. -- Oprah Winfrey
Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself. -- Sara Blakely
There's no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying. -- Max Tegmark
I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird. -- Eva Le Gallienne
We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying! -- Joyce Meyer
Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate. -- Gavin Newsom
If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying. -- Kevin Heath
Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result. -- Catherine Ponder
Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory! -- Catherine Ponder
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
The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation. -- David Bowie
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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
If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed. -- Norman Geras
There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. -- Jay Samit
Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts. -- Chris Bradford
You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it. -- Maya Angelou
To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted. -- Helen Keller
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
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. -- Kin Hubbard
Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final. -- Thomas S. Monson
I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure. -- Martha Ronk

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