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When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be momentarily comforting. - Unattributed Author, UNIT Procedures Manual, Zen Division. They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties. - Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism (closing paragraph of preface) He who bears failure with patience is as much of a philosopher as he who succeeds; for to put up with the world needs as much wisdom as to control it. - James H. Aughey How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. - Bible, II Samuel (ch. II, v. 25) The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. - Jacob Bronowski A first failure is often a blessing. - A. Whitney Brown Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures. - Gene Brown In the lexicon of youth . . . there is no such words as fail! - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word As--fail! - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Richelieu (act II, sc. 2) Never say "Fail" again. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Richelieu (act II, sc. 2) He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride. - John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II) Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. - Robert Burns, It Was a' for our Rightfu' King He that is down can fall no lower. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 878) Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. - William Cobbett Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. - Confucius Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so. - Cyril Connolly I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby He's completely unspoiled by failure. - Noel Coward Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. - Emily Dickinson Nothing fails like failure. - Margaret Drabble Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down. - Jimmy Durante I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas Alva Edison Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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