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• Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Determination, Men, Failing

  "An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front".

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• Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

  Clinton D. McKinnon

  Mistake, Past, Long

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• In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in stocking the Universe on the part of the Deity.

  John N. Bahcall

  Science, Discovery, Views

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• Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Errors, Progress

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.163, Harvard University Press

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• The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Mistake, Men

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• 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.

  Dennis Flanagan

  Science, Feelings, Research

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• Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it.

  Henry Jacob Bigelow

  Character, Successful, Science

  "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". Pp. 369-370. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.

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• If success were easy, then it would not necessarily be true success. Some of history's most successful people learned to cope with failure as a natural offshoot of the experimental and creative process and often learned more from their failures than their successes. By taking the attitude that failure is merely a detour on the way to our destination, hope can blossom into success.

  John Templeton

  Attitude, Successful, People

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• 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.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Wise, Philosophy, People

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• Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

  Joan D. Chittister

  Real, Able, Good Enough

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• What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

  Bernie Siegel

  Teacher, Wife, Example

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• 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.

  John Templeton

  Fall, Doors, Skills

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• Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

  Hans Selye

  Depressing, Past, Achievement

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Concern, Accounts, Mines

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.271, Vintage

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

  John Updike

  Loyalty, Men, Loser

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.101, Random House

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• Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Kissing

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• Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

  Cyril Connolly

  Bitterness, Overrated, Undesirable

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• 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.

  Irving Babbitt

  Important, Achieve, Difficult

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• Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

  Douglas Coupland

  Opportunity, Sometimes, Disguise

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.147, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

  Claude Lelouch

  Real, Winning, Loser

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• It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

  Bryan Ferry

  People, Sound, Rate

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• Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

  Ron Dellums

  Trying, Crime

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• The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

  Carroll Quigley

  Spain, West, Influence

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• To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

  Smiley Blanton

  Happiness, Acting, Next

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• To win you've got to stay in the game.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Inspiration, Winning, Games

  Claude M. Bristol, Harold Sherman (1992). “TNT: The Power Within You”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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