failure

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action.  You just
have to find it.  When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times and it’s painful when we do.
But it’s better to fail while striving for something wonderful,
challenging, adventurous and uncertain than to say, “I don’t want
to try, because I may not succeed completely.”

Jimmy Carter

Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life's lessons come through failures probably more than successes.
Through our failures we learn humility.  We learn to look to others
for help and guidance.  We learn how to let others fail, too.
We fail because we are human.  When we no longer fear failure, we are
free to attempt greater feats.  We dare to learn more, and life is fuller
for it--not just our own lives, but the lives that we touch.

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No matter the goal you have set -- if you have not quit, you have not failed.

Laura Teresa Marquez

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Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are
trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept
failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet
them and make the best of them.

Wilferd A. Peterson

You need the ability to fail.  I'm amazed at the number of
organizations that set up an environment where they do not
permit their people to be wrong.  You cannot innovate
unless you are willing to accept some mistakes.

Charles Knight

The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail
frees a childlike awareness and clarity. . . . When we give ourselves
permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.

Eloise Ristad

What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living.
My wife has a great one-liner about failure:  "Never consider
yourself a failure--you can always serve as a bad example."
She is right.  Failure can be a better teacher than success.

Bernie Siegel

What can any of us do with our talent but try to develop our vision, so that
through frequent failures we may learn better what we missed in the past.

William Carlos Williams

Susan Falter-Barns

"You're making a common mistake," he said.  "You're thinking of
failure as the enemy of success.  But it isn't at all.  Failure is
a teacher--a harsh one, perhaps, but the best.  You say you have
a desk full of rejected manuscripts?  That's great!  Every one of
those manuscripts was rejected for a reason.  Have you pulled
them to pieces looking for that reason?  That's what I have to do
when an idea backfires or a sales program fails.
You've got to put failure to work for you."

He folded his napkin and put it beside his plate.  "You can be
discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it.  So go ahead
and make mistakes.  Make all you can.  Because, remember,
that's where you'll find success.  On the far side of failure."

Arthur Gordon,
quoting Thomas J. Watson

In every failure is the seed of success.

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