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Inspirational Sayings: Overcoming Failure

A Select Collection of Inspirational Sayings: Overcoming Failure

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Napoleon Hill: Inspirational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Charles Austin Beard.: Inspirational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Elbert Green Hubbard: Inspirational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that... the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

Alexander Graham Bell: Inspirational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Orson Welles: Inspirational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
When you are down and out something always turns up - and it's usually the noses of your friends.

Les Brown: Inspirational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
When you are down on your back, if you can look up, you can get up.

Denis Waitley: Inspirational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Ward Cleaver: Inspirational Sayings: Overcoming Failure
When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

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