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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise.
In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
[Lat., Quod read more
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise.
In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
[Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe
Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]
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.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
[Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]
He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
[Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, read more
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
Greatly begin! Though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime--
Not failure, but low read more
Greatly begin! Though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime--
Not failure, but low aim is crime.