Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

—Mickey Rooney

About Mickey Rooney

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Mickey Rooney (born Ninnian Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. He was the top box-office attraction from...

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I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

—Mickey Rooney

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

—Mickey Rooney

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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

—Mary Pickford

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

—J. K. Rowling

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

—J. K. Rowling

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

—J. K. Rowling

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