Failure
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day — as long as you treat it that way.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode — the aftereffects of which still linger — has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.
Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
