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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not read more
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan,
thou wast slain in thine high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan,
thou wast slain in thine high places.
He that is down can fall no lower.
He that is down can fall no lower.
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
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Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
[Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno
Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum
Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that read more
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three read more
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have .
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. read more
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
