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 | "A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the
experience." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success." | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "Act as if it were impossible to fail." | |
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Dorothea Broude
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| "All human actions are equivalent ... and ... all are on principle
doomed...." | |
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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| "All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural
propensities." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail." | |
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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| "Failure is success if we learn from it." | |
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Malcolm S. Forbes
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| "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." | |
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Truman Capote
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| "Failures are divided into two classes ? those who thought and never
did, and those who did and never thought." | |
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John Charles Salak.
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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.... One who doesn"t try
cannot fail and become wise." | |
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William Saroyan
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| "He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts." | |
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Richard Whately
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| "He that is down needs fear no fall." | |
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John Bunyan
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| "He who has never failed somewhere ... that man can not be
great." | |
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Herman Melville
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| "I don"t know the key to success but the key to failure is to try to
please everyone." | |
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William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.
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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." | |
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George Eliot
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| "I"ve been rich and I"ve been poor. Rich is better." | |
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Sophie Tucker
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| "If at first you don?t succeed, failure may be your thing." | |
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Warren Miller
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| "If we don"t succeed, we run the risk of failure." | |
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Dan Quayle
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| "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit
it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily
final." | |
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Proverb
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| "It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have
tried and succeeded." | |
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| "Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." | |
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Roger Ward Babson
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| "Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is
too good." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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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." | |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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| "Many people fail because they conclude that fundamentals do not
apply in their case." | |
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M. L. Cichon
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| "Men do not fail; they give up trying." | |
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Elihu Root
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| "Never give a man up until he has failed at something he
likes." | |
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Lewis E. Lawes
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| "Never give up and never face the facts." | |
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Ruth Gordon
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| "Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the
habit of making excuses." | |
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Dr. George Washington Carver
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| "No man is a failure who is enjoying life." | |
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William Feather
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| "No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media,
they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost." | |
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Robin Renwick
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| "No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best
friend." | |
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Groucho Marx
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| "Our greatest glory consists not in falling, but in rising every time
we fall." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising
every time we fall." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time
we fail." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." | |
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Sophocles
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| "She knows there"s no success like failure And that failure"s no
success at all." | |
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Bob Dylan
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| "SYLPH, n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air
when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with
factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want
most for what we want at the moment." | |
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Unknown
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| "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain,
egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes
them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people
cruel and bitter." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in
rising every time you fall" | |
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Nelson Mandela
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| "The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the
team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have
many fathers, failures have none." | |
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Philip Caldwell
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| "The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than
those who try nothing and succeed." | |
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Lloyd Jones
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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." | |
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
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| "They fail, and they alone, who have not striven." | |
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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| "Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without
failing, sometimes dramatically." | |
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Philip Crosby
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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." | |
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Samuel Smiles
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| "What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" | |
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The Rev. Robert H. Schuller
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| "When all else fails, fresh tactics!" | |
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John Travolta
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| "When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." | |
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James Dale Davidson
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