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Failure Quotes (page 38)

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. Alan Perlis
Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated-- but not in politics... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer. B. F. Skinner
The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight. If you do not do it, the story is a failure. [...] There is no nobler chore in the universe than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal', the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is... Harlan Ellison
Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we dream of, we lose the energy necessary for any important transformation in our lives. Someone once put this most succinctly: “I don’t know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others. Paulo Coelho
We are sinners. But we should not take the failure to live up to this high moral standard as an authoritative objection to the truth. We should try to do as much good as we can and to support and put up with each other. . Joseph Ratzinger
Salman Rushdie quote: "Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are..."
Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed. Salman Rushdie
Alan Moore quote: "The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire..."
The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do Alan Moore
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish..."
If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure. Madeleine L'Engle
Lao Tzu quote: "Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear."
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. Lao Tzu
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. John Fowles
Barack Obama quote: "Don't let your failures define you."
Don't let your failures define you. Barack Obama
But the truth was she could not bear to be around thier undead, healthy children. More than envy she felt that each laughing redcheeked child of thiers was an accusation of failure, a mockery of her own. Toni Morrison
I'm still discovering, right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities. In so doing, we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
George Eliot quote: "Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were..."
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence. George Eliot
At Childerstown High School and at college he had never led his class nor taken prizes; but, without being aware that he did, he really blamed this on his failure to work hard, or any harder than he needed to. . . . What he did not know, what Paul Bonbright, among others, showed him, was that those abilities of his that got him, without distinction but also without much exertion, through all previous lessons and examinations, were not first rate abilities handicapped by laziness, but second... James Gould Cozzens

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