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Failure Quotes (page 37)

Dwight L. Moody quote: "Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding..."
Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter. Dwight L. Moody
George R. R. Martin quote: "Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the..."
Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence. George R. R. Martin
You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is,--though some in less degree, or less perceptibly, than their fellows. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most moral philosophers consciously or unconsciously assume the essential correctness of our cultural sexual code? family, monogamy, continence, the postulate of privacy, ... restriction of intercourse to the marriage bed, etcetera. Having stipulated our cultural code as a whole, they fiddle with details - even such piffle as solemnly discussing whether or not the female breast is an "obscene" sight! But mostly they debate how the human animal can be induced or forced to obey this code,... Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure. Robert Anton Wilson
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery: the depth of failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. Leonardo da Vinci
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life is: could have, might have, and should have. Louis E. Boone
by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier. Anne Lamott
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. Debbi Fields
We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection. C. S. Lewis
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the... Robert E. Lee
Michael Connelly quote: "What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?"
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures? Michael Connelly
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling. Graham Greene
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt Immanuel Kant
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. Johnny Cash

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