Failure
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We are not always humiliated by failing at things; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement, and then do not reach it.
Status Anxiety
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others
A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes
They never fail who die in a great cause
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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