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Mason Cooley on failure
Author: Mason Cooley“I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.” -Mason Cooley
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Eric Hoffer on failure
Author: Eric Hoffer“It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.” -Eric Hoffer
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Charles Kettering on failure
Author: Charles Kettering“We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.” -Charles Kettering
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Tennessee Williams on failure
Author: Tennessee Williams“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.” -Tennessee Williams
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J. K. Rowling on failure
Author: J. K. Rowling“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.” -J. K. Rowling
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Henry Kravis on failure
Author: Henry Kravis“As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.” -Henry Kravis
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George W. Bush on failure
Author: George W. Bush“I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.” -George W. Bush
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Anthony J. D’Angelo on failure
Author: Anthony J. D’Angelo“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
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John Keats on failure
Author: John Keats“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.” -John Keats
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on failure
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Carter G. Woodson on failure
Author: Carter G. Woodson“If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.” -Carter G. Woodson
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Herbert Kaufman on failure
Author: Herbert Kaufman“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches’ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.” -Herbert Kaufman
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John Kenneth Galbraith on failure
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith“War remains the decisive human failure.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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Henry Miller on failure
Author: Henry Miller“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe.” -Henry Miller
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Alfred Adler on failure
Author: Alfred Adler“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma – but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.” -Alfred Adler
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Karen Armstrong on failure
Author: Karen Armstrong“Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.” -Karen Armstrong
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Roger Babson on failure
Author: Roger Babson“Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.” -Roger Babson
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Harry S. Truman on failure
Author: Harry S. Truman“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.” -Harry S. Truman
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John W. Gardner on failure
Author: John W. Gardner“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.” -John W. Gardner
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Christian Nestell Bovee on failure
Author: Christian Nestell Bovee“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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Paul Tillich on failure
Author: Paul Tillich“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.” -Paul Tillich
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Mary Pickford on failure
Author: Mary Pickford“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” -Mary Pickford
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Walter Scott on failure
Author: Walter Scott“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.” -Walter Scott
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John Dewey on failure
Author: John Dewey“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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Jack Kerouac on failure
Author: Jack Kerouac“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” -Jack Kerouac