Failure
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You will face many defeats in your life, but
never let yourself be defeated.
-- Maya Angelou
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The
young think that failure is the Siberian end
of the line, banishment from all the living,
and tend to do what I then did - which was to
hide.
-- James A.
Baldwin
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Every
great mistake has a halfway moment, a split
second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
-- Pearl S. Buck
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A
man can get discouraged many times but he is
not a failure until he begins to blame somebody
else and stops trying.
~
John Burroughs
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It's
not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
~ Jimmy Carter
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You
must accept that you might fail; then, if you
do your best and still don't win, at least you
can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't
accept failure as a possibility, you don't set
high goals, you don't branch out, you don't
try - you don't take the risk.
-- Rosalynn
Carter
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"There
are no magic answers, no miraculous methods
to overcome the problems we face, just the
familiar ones: honest search for understanding,
education, organization, action ... and the
kind of commitment that will persist despite
the temptations of disillusionment, despite
many failures and only limited successes,
inspired by the hope of a brighter future."
-- Noam Chomsky
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"There
are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome
the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest
search for understanding, education, organization,
action that raises the cost of state violence for
its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional
change -- and the kind of commitment that will persist
despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite
many failures and only limited successes, inspired
by the hope of a brighter future."
-- Noam Chomsky
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If
you live long enough, you'll make mistakes.
But if you learn from them, you'll be a better
person. It's how you handle adversity, not how
it affects you. The main thing is never quit,
never quit, never quit.
~ Bill Clinton
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But
there is suffering in life, and there are defeats.
No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose
some of the battles in the struggles for your
dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing
what you're fighting for.
-- Paulo Coelho
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In
order to succeed, your desire for success should
be greater than your fear of failure.
-- Bill Cosby
I
don't know the key to success, but the key to
failure is trying to please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby
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The
main failure of education is that it has not prepared
people to comprehend matters concerning human
destiny.
-- Norman Cousins
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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
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Life
is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won
by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
- Ralph Ellison
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising up every time we fail.
~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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Do
not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue
to reach out.
-- Benjamin
Franklin
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An
error does not become truth by reason of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error because
nobody sees it.
-- Mohandas K.
Gandhi
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No
matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as
well as victory to shake the soul and let the
glory out.
~ Al Gore
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The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid
of making one.
- Elbert Hubbard
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We need to accept that we won't always make
the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally
sometimes - understanding that failure is not
the opposite of success, it's part of success.
-- Arianna
Huffington
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“The
heroes of the world community are not those
who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those
who can envision neither the prospect of success
nor the consequence of failure -- but those
who stand the heat of battle, the fight for
world peace through the United Nations.”
-- Hubert Humphrey
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And
when at some future date the high court of history
sits in judgment on each of us ... will be measured
by the answers to four questions: First, were
we truly men of courage... Second, were we truly
men of judgment... Third, were we truly men
of integrity... Finally, were we truly men of
dedication?
-- John
F. Kennedy, 1961
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And
when at some future date the high court of history
sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether
in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities
to the state, our success or failure, in whatever
office we hold, will be measured by the answers to
four questions: First, were we truly men of courage...
Second, were we truly men of judgment... Third, were
we truly men of integrity... Finally, were we truly
men of dedication?
-- John F. Kennedy,
1961
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle
ought not to deter us from the support of a
cause we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln
My
great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey
goes on.
-- Margaret Mead
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Far
better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they
live in the gray twilight that knows not victory
nor defeat.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
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A
mistake is not a failure if you try to fix it,
learn from it or move on, determined to make
a better choice next time.
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
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Keep
in mind that our community is not composed of
those who are already saints, but of those who
are trying to become saints. Therefore let us
be extremely patient with each other's faults
and failures.
-- Mother Teresa
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and
objectives and principles.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it
were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not.
It takes patience, it takes commitment, and
it comes with plenty of failure along the way.
The real test is not whether you avoid this
failure, because you won't. it's whether you
let it harden or shame you into inaction, or
whether you learn from it; whether you choose
to persevere.
-- Barack Obama
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One
thing is sure. We have to do something. We have
to do the best we know how at the moment...
If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify
it as we go along.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
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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.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win
glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they
live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory
nor defeat. It is not the critic that counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have
done them better. The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred
by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly,
who errs, and comes short again and again, because
there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds.”
-- Theodore
Roosevelt |
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When
I was young, I observed that nine out of ten
things I did were failures. So I did ten times
more work.
-- George Bernard
Shaw
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People are always blaming their circumstances
for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are the
people who get up and look for the circumstances
they want, and, if they can't find them, make
them.
-- George Bernard
Shaw
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Once
we realize that imperfect understanding is the
human condition there is no shame in being wrong,
only in failing to correct our mistakes.
-- George Soros
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It is absolutely sure that if globalization
is not founded on moral values not only will
fail but will bring about global calamities.
-- George
Vithoulkas
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"Adversity
causes some men to break; others to break records."
- William Ward
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Crime
and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure...
-- H.
G. Wells |
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Do
the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail
at it. Try again. Do better the second time.
The only people who never tumble are those who
never mount the high wire. This is your moment.
Own it.
-- Oprah Winfrey
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure
if you enjoyed the process.
--
Oprah Winfrey
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We have come this far always believing
that justice would somehow prevail.
This is the burden, this is the promise,
and THIS is why we will not fail.
-- Peter Yarrow
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