Failure quotes
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"No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes."
"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."
"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."
"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
"No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage."
"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself."
"If you stop struggling, then you stop life."
"I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work."
"No pressure, no diamonds."
"I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that."
"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day."
"Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything."
"Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."
"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."
"Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true."
"Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better."
"If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb."
"It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish."
