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Failure |
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| "If you're not failing, you're
not trying anything." |
| -- Woody Allen |
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| "He who has never failed
somewhere, that man cannot be great." |
| -- Herman Melville |
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| "Forget about the consequences
of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set
you straight for your next success." |
| -- Denis Waitley |
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“Mistakes are the portals of
discovery.” |
| -- James Joyce |
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"All failure leads to success-- eventually."
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| -- Albert Einstein |
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"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more
intelligently."
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| -- Henry Ford (1863-1947), American
automobile manufacturer |
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| "Our greatest glory consists
not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| "Only he who does nothing
makes no mistakes." |
| -- French Proverb |
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| "A man who has committed a
mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.' |
| -- Confucius |
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“It is better to fail in
originality than to succeed in imitation.” |
| -- Herman Melville |
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| "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but
in rising every time we fall."
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| -- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b.
1918), South African Black political leader |
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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 Alva Edison
(1847-1931), American inventor |
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| "The line between failure
and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we
are often on the line and do not know it." |
| --
Elbert Hubbard
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| "There is the greatest
practical benefit in making a few failures early in life." |
| --
Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "It takes as much courage to
have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." |
| -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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| "Our business in this world is
not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits." |
| -- Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850-94), British writer |
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| “I
have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my
mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to
founts of wisdom and knowledge.” |
| -- Igor Stravinsky, Russian
composer |
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| "Failure is the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently." |
| -- Moshe Arens (b. 1925), Israeli
statesman |
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| "A man's life is interesting
primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he
has tried to surpass himself." |
| -- Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929),
French politician |
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| "I'm proof against that word
failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear
is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best." |
| -- George Eliot (1819 - 1880) |
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| "The
only failure is in quitting when you really want to continue the
fight but you don't. Setbacks are not failures, they are obstacles
to be overcome with a better approach. Giving up, because the
benefits of victory have paled, is not failure, simply recognition
of misjudged value. Failure only happens when in your heart you want
something, and know it's worth having, but you can not muster your
powers to make it happen because you do not have the resolve to
begin the assault anew." |
| --
Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer |
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| I cannot give you the
formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure-- which is: Try
to please everybody. |
| --
Herbert B. Swope
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| "Would you like me to give you
a formula for...success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of
failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it
isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from
it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember
that's where you'll find success. On the far side." |
| -- Thomas John Watson, Sr.
(1874-1956), American businessman |
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| "We are all
failures-- at
least, all the best of us are." |
| --
J. M. Barrie
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“Nothing fails like success
because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.” |
| -- Kenneth Boudling |
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| “It is not enough for a man to
know how to ride; he must know how to fall.”
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| -- Mexican Proverb |
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| "Ever tried. Ever failed.
No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." |
| --
Samuel Beckett
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| "Failure is instructive. The
person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from
his successes." |
| -- John Dewey (1859-1952),
American philosopher, educator |
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| "No man is a failure who
enjoys life." |
| --
William Feather
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| "One who fears failure
limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to
begin again." |
| --
Henry Ford
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| "There is no failure except
in no longer trying." |
| --
Elbert Hubbard
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"Being
defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it
permanent." |
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--
Marlene vos Savant
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| "Failure is the foundation of
success, and the means by which it is achieved." |
| -- Lao-tzu |
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| "Failure is a school in which
the truth always grows stronger.' |
| -- Henry Ward Beecher |
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| "From error to error, one
discovers the entire truth." |
| -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939),
Austrian psychiatrist |
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| "Man must strive, and in
striving, he must err." |
| -- Goethe |
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| "We learn wisdom from failure
much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by
finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a
mistake never made a discovery." |
| -- Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), |
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| "The person interested in
success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part
of the process of getting to the top." |
| -- Dr. Joyce (Diane Bauer) Brothers
(b. 1929), American psychologist |
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| "Our achievements speak
for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements,
and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and
the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean
forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay." |
| --
Eric Hoffer
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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| --
Thomas Edison |
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are
content with your failure."
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| --
Abraham Lincoln |
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"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
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| -- Samuel Beckett |
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| "Our
greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we
fall." |
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-- Confucius |
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| "Mistakes are caused by two
factors: lack of knowledge and lack of attention. Knowledge can be
measured and deficiencies corrected through tried-and-true means.
Lack of attention must be corrected by the person himself or
herself, through an acute reappraisal of his or her moral
values." |
| -- Philip (Bayard) Crosby (b.
1926), American writer |
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"There
is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from
within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of
purpose."
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--
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915), American Author, Publisher
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| "Mistakes are a fact of life.
It is the response to the error that counts." |
| -- Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943),
American writer |
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| "Only a man who knows what it
is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and
come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match
is even." |
| -- Muhammad Ali (b. 1942), [Cassius
Clay] American prizefighter |
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| "Success and failure are both
difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication,
bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and
suicide. With failure comes failure." |
| -- Joseph Heller (b. 1923),
American Author, writer |
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| "An inventor fails 999 times,
and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as
practice shots." |
| -- Charles Franklin Kettering
(1876-1958), American electrical manufacturer |
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is
trying to please everybody." |
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-- Bill Cosby (b. 1937),
African-American comedian, actor, author |
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| "One great cause of failure is
lack of concentration." |
| -- Bruce Lee (1940-73), Martial
arts actor |
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“I always turn to the sports
pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front
page has nothing but man's failures.”
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| -- Chief Justice Earl Warren |
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| "Good people are
good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little
wisdom from success, you know." |
| -- William Saroyan |
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| "Failure is more
frequently from want of energy than want of capital." |
| -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852),
American politician, US representative, senator |
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| “We didn't lose the game; we
just ran out of time.”
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| -- Vince Lombardi, American
football coach |
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| “From the errors of others, a
wise man corrects his own.”
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| -- Syrus |
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| "Being convinced one knows the
whole story is the surest way to fail." |
| -- Philip (Bayard) Crosby (b.
1926), American writer |
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| "Failure should be our
teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a
temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid
only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." |
| -- Denis Waitley |
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"Seven National Crimes:
1. I don't think.
2. I don't know.
3. I don't care.
4. I am too busy.
5. I leave well enough alone.
6. I have no time to read and find out.
7. I am not interested." |
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William J. H.
Boetcker
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