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• You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Topics in Failure

• If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  Vin Diesel

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Would, Person

• The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Topics in Dream, Failure

  Tags in Unreality, Friends, Sleeping

• Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Commitment, Failure, Opportunity, Success

  Tags in Optimism, Persistence, Patience

• Everyone pushes a falling fence.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs, Failure

  Tags in Freedom

• I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

  Topics in Failure, Humor, Life, Success

  Tags in Examinations, Fail, Win

• Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

  Robert J. McKain

  Topics in Failure, Success

  Tags in Drawing, Often

• It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

  Jessamyn West

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Forgiveness

• If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.”

  Sharon Salzberg

  Topics in Anger, Challenge, Failure

  Tags in Change/Growth, Heart, Blame

• Don’t come home a failure.

  Ty Cobb

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Needs

• It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

  Roger W. Babson

  Topics in Failure, Success

  Tags in Final

• A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

  Margaret Atwood

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Reason

• Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose — not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.

  Anne Sullivan

  Topics in Failure, Success

  Tags in Purpose, Beginning

• But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.

  Paulo Coelho

  Topics in Failure, Suffering

  Tags in Purpose

• We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

  J. M. Barrie

  Topics in Failure, Success

  Tags in Learning, Moving On

• At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Defects, Qualities, Accept, Far

• I’m a perfectionist. I can’t help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

  Justin Timberlake

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Perfectionist, Fail, Myself
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  Failure is not final.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Fall

• Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Challenge, Failure, Mistake

  Tags in Fallibility, Fall

• I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

  Michael Malone

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Greatest, Faith