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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can not accept not trying.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Remembering that I will be dead soon is the most important tool I have 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 have come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Before success comes in any man life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.

It is fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Do not be afraid to fail. Do not waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It is OK to fail. If you are not failing, you are not growing.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

If you learn from defeat, you have not really lost.

A man can fail many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.