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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
    23478 likes

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  • #3
    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
    2832 likes

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  • #4
    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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    Maya Angelou
    “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance
    3224 likes

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  • #6
    Benjamin Franklin
    “I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: examinations, failure, humor
    1188 likes

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  • #7
    H.G. Wells
    “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
    1045 likes

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  • #8
    Jason Mraz
    “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”
    ― Jason Mraz
    tags: failure, inspirational, life, success, truth, winning
    737 likes

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  • #9
    J.M. Barrie
    “We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
    ― J.M. Barrie
    tags: failure, learning, moving-on, self-criticism, success
    1051 likes

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  • #10
    Fernando Pessoa
    “My past is everything I failed to be.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: failure, past, self, time
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  • #11
    Ken Robinson
    “If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
    ― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
    tags: creativity, failure, original
    742 likes

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    Janet Fitch
    “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: death, failure, rebirth
    628 likes

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  • #13
    Sophocles
    “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: change, character, course, crime, failure, mistakes, pride, yield
    1238 likes

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    Henry Ford
    “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: experience, failure
    484 likes

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    Junot Díaz
    “Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
    ― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    tags: failure, success
    387 likes

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    Thomas A. Edison
    “Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: experimentation, failure
    330 likes

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  • #17
    “When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: failure, inspirational, risks, success, taking-risks
    418 likes

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  • #18
    “But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.”
    ― Eric Wright
    tags: criticism, dreams, failure, life
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  • #19
    Richard Yates
    “if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”
    ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
    tags: failure
    228 likes

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    Gena Showalter
    “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.”
    ― Gena Showalter
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  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: failure
    191 likes

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  • #22
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: failure, perseverance
    299 likes

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  • #23
    Beverly Sills
    “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
    ― Beverly Sills
    tags: failure, life, success
    197 likes

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  • #24
    Jillian Michaels
    “A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.”
    ― Jillian Michaels, Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body!
    tags: failure, personal-growth
    235 likes

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  • #25
    Jean Vanier
    “I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.”
    ― Jean Vanier, Community and Growth
    160 likes

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  • #26
    Dorothy Day
    “Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”
    ― Dorothy Day
    tags: effectiveness, failure, success, truth
    165 likes

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  • #27
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Lucy: You learn more when you lose
    Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts Treasury
    tags: failure, learning, wisdom
    141 likes

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  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
    5819 likes

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  • #29
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

    And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.

    "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.

    "Certainly," said man.

    "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.

    And He went away.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
    tags: creation, meaning-of-life, purpose
    1658 likes

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  • #30
    Gautama Buddha
    “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”
    ― Buddha
    tags: mission, purpose, work
    1088 likes



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