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A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

Any housing solution that involves paying for industrially produced building materials and commercial building contractors is doomed to certain failure. If houses are to be built at all, in sufficient quantity, they must be built without money. We must go right outside the framework of the money system, bypass the factories, and ignore the contractors.

Anyone can take a false step And fall forever, Everyone is different. Where are they now, all those lost souls?

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.