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If you have
tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off
than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must
never regret what might have been. The past that did not
happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
-- Richard Martin Stern
Our business
in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in
good spirits.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist,
Poet, Novelist
Why is it so
painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something
unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress,
evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
-- J. August Strindberg
1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist,
Novelist, Poet
The only time
you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it
works.
-- William Strong
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Not many
people are willing to give failure a second opportunity.
They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure
is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing
to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to
consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back,
you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most
powerful success forces.
-- Joseph Sugarman
American Businessman
The man who
fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at
all is to be found everywhere.
-- Frank Swinnerton
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
1882-1958, American
Journalist
Men are born
to succeed, not to fail.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
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