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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

— Thomas A. Edison

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✓Similar Perspectives

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

— Jay-Z

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

— Coco Chanel

Having failures in life is important to understand where, exactly, you stand.

— Anushka Sharma

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

— John C. Maxwell

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

— Guy Laliberte

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

— Michael Crawford

✗Opposing Perspectives

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

— Whoopi Goldberg

Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.

— Suki Waterhouse

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

— Ali Larter