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Quotes About Failure and Perseverance

Monday, September 5, 2005 (Updated: Sunday, May 31, 2026)
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A life making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson




By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
C. H. Spurgeon

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
Henry Ford

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elber Hubbard

I do not fear failure as much as a I fear that I might succeed at things that really do not matter.
Erwin Lutzer

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Sallie Schaaf Borrink is a Christian, wife, mother, homeschooler, homebody, and autodidact. She owns a home-based graphic design and web design business with her husband (DavidandSallie.com).

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