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Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

Charles Buxton
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Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Charles Dickens
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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. by Charles Horton Cooley

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Charles Horton Cooley
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon... by Charles Horton Cooley

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Charles Horton Cooley
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99 percent of success is built on failure. by Charles Kettering

99 percent of success is built on failure.

Charles Kettering
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One fails forward toward success. by Charles Kettering

One fails forward toward success.

Charles Kettering
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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Charles Kettering
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Learn how to fail intelligently. by Charles Kettering

Learn how to fail intelligently.

Charles Kettering
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We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Charles Kettering
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try. by Charles Kettering

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

Charles Kettering
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Charles Kettering
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There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions. by Charles Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Charles Simmons
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To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure. by Charles Tomlinson

To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.

Charles Tomlinson
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In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.

Charles Tomlinson
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourse... by Charlie Chaplin

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin
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Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done.

Charlie Kaufman
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As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

Charlie Sheen
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I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.

Charlotte Alington Barnard
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I don't think anyone's a failure as long as they're still innocent. Just a little. They may lose everything good in them but as long as they believe just a little in something very small, they're still innocent. To fail is to lose every bit of innocence.

Charlotte Bingham
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