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| It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
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| It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. | | Charles F. Kettering | |
| It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. | | Eric Hoffer | |
| Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. | | Anais Nin | |
| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. | | Thomas Alva Edison | |
| My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. | | Alfred Adler | |
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| People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not | | Giacomo Leopardi | |
| Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. | | Winston Churchill | |
| Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. | | Joseph Heller | |
| Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. | | Earl Wilson | |
| Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. | | Walter Scott | |
| The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. | | R. D. Laing | |
| The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. | | Colin Powell | |
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