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«Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.»
«Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.»
Author: Ethel Barrymore
| About:
Achievement,
Doubt,
Failure
| Keywords:
achievements, doubts, groped, grope for, groping, speak for, track
«People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.»
Author: George Allen
(Coach)
| About:
Ability,
Failure,
Success
| Keywords:
determined, mediocre, outstanding, People of, quit
«People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not»
«Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.»
«Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.»
Author: Roger Von Oech
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
approach, benefits, fail, gives, give it a try, opportunity, second
«One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Failure,
Honor,
People
| Keywords:
and how, appreciate, dishonorable, failings, honorable, some other, thoroughly
«Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.»
«So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.»
Author: W. Clement Stone
(Author, Founder)
| About:
Beginning,
Failure
| Keywords:
get started, inertia
«Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Envy,
Failure,
Ignorance,
Misery,
Philosophy,
Socialism,
Virtue
| Keywords:
creed, gospel, Gospels, inherent, Philosophy of, sharing, socialism
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