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“Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pu...”
“I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.”
“There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.”
“Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.”
“What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure.”
“They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has but I notice he usually blunders forward.”
“Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.”
“Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.”
“No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.”
“Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.”
“Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.”
“The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
“If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.”
“Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.”
“There are defeats more triumphant than victories.”
“There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”
“Nothing succeeds like failure.”
“Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.”
“Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
“Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.”
