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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible of reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

The whole world is one family.

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them.

Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.

To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections

To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

* 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.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.