There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.
One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.
Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.
You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
Failure is usually the line of least persistence.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.
Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.
Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
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