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- I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.
- Herbert B. Swope
- Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
- Joseph Sugarman
- Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
- Jawaharal Nehru
- To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
- Ken Keyes
- No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
- W. E. Gladstone
- Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
- Edward Dowden
- Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
- Annie Besant
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