Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. – Roger Ward BaBson

Failure is the path of least resistance. – Sir James Matthew Barrie

Your failures won’t hurt you until you start blaming them on others. – Anonymous

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform. – Sandra Bartky

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. – Alexander Graham Bell

There are no failures — only feedback. – R. Bandler

It is not failure itself that holds you back;it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you. – Brian Tracy

If at first you don’t succeed, think how many people you’ve made happy.- H. Duane Black

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

A minute’s success pays the failure for years. – Robert Browning

I’d rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate. – George Burns

A man may fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. – John Burroughs

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned. – Struther Burt

I don’t know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. – Bill William Henry Cosby

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote

The only real failure in life is one not learned from. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I’ll show you someone destined for failure. – Johnetta Cole

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style. – Quentin Crisp

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. – Anthony J. D’Angelo

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. – Josephus Daniels

Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure. -
Brian Tracy

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