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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

There's a buzz to failing and not dying.

The reward of suffering is experience

There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?

The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

The whole world is one family.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

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

The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

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

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

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

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

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

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

They never fail who die in a great cause.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.