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Motivational Sayings about Overcoming Failure

A Select Collection of Motivational Sayings about Overcoming Failure

By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide

John Maxwell: Motivational Sayings about Overcoming Failure
To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

Samuel McChord Crothers: Motivational Sayings about Overcoming Failure
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Henry Van Dyke: Motivational Sayings about Overcoming Failure
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Motivational Sayings about Overcoming Failure
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

J. M. Barrie: Motivational Sayings about Overcoming Failure
We are all failures - at least, all the best of us are.

John Burdone Sanderson Haldane: Motivational Sayings about Overcoming Failure
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

James E. Burke: Motivational Sayings about Overcoming Failure
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Henry David Thoreau: Motivational Sayings about Overcoming Failure
We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Benjamin Disraeli: Motivational Sayings about Overcoming Failure
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.

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