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There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the beams of light. There is an Arm that never tires, When human strength gives way. There is a Love that never fails, When earthly loves decay.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

There is no failure, only a process which is leading us to become the greatest version of ourselves.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

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

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

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

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

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 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 world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

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

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

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 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 never fail who die in a great cause.

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

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

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