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Quotes about failure
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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. (Beerbohm Max)
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. (Beerbohm Max)
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. (Beerbohm Max)
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. (Beerbohm Max)
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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. (Beerbohm Max)
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. (Beerbohm Max)
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. (Beerbohm Max)
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus. (Beerbohm Max)
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. (Beerbohm Max)
If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see. (Beerbohm Max)
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. (Beerbohm Max)
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. (Beerbohm Max)
The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere. (Beerbohm Max)
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody. (Beerbohm Max)
Men are born to succeed, not to fail. (Beerbohm Max)
The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. (Beerbohm Max)
There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed. (Beerbohm Max)
Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do. (Beerbohm Max)
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory. (Beerbohm Max)
Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try (Beerbohm Max)
Failure is the path of least persistence (Beerbohm Max)
From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln. (Beerbohm Max)
Success is the proper utilization of failure. (Beerbohm Max)
Past failures are guideposts to success. (Beerbohm Max)
When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall. (Beerbohm Max)
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