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FAILURE: Failure is a disappointment but not defeat. (Jeanne Robertson, U.S. humorist, born 1943)
FAILURE: Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile. (Unknown source)
FAILURE: Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. (Daniel Webster, U.S. politician who served as Secretary of State, 1782-1852)
FAILURE: People fail forward to success. (Mary Kay Ash, U.S. businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, 1918-2001)
FAILURE: We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. (David Grayson, U.S. journalist and historian, 1870-1946)
FAILURE: Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail. (Louis Binstock, U.S. Rabbi, 1895-1974)
FAILURE: Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter. (Unknown source)
FAILURE: Failure is sometimes a matter of not trying rather than not succeeding. (Sarah Blakely, U.S. billionaire businesswoman, Born 1971)
FAILURE: Failure is often the fire that forges the steel. (Paul Tudor Jones, financier and philanthropist, Born 1954)
FAILURE: Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. (Charles F. Kettering, U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)
FAILURE: The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. (Yogananda, Indian yogi and guru who introduced millions of westerners to the teaching of meditation and Kriya Yoga, 1893-1952)
FAILURE: Try again, fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902)
FAILURE: This thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford, Canadian-American film actress and producer, 1892-1979)