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"Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail." »Neil A. Maxwell
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." »Woody Allen
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"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." »Benjamin Franklin
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"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses." »Seneca
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"Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically." »Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant." »Garry Trudeau
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"The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time." »P. G. Wodehouse
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"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember." »Annie Sullivan
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"failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does" »Richard Exely
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"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing." »H. Stanley Judd
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"For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself." »Rita Mae Brown
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"I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true." »Arsenio Hall
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"Prosperity attends the lion-hearted man who exerts himself, while we say, destiny will ensure it. Laying aside destiny, show manly fortitude by thy own strength: if thou endeavour, and thy endeavours fail of success, what crime is there in failing?" »The Hitopadesa
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"We want God to come and save us. But he won't. God doesn't stop levees from failing, he doesn't stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn't stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated." »Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-09-05
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"It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led." »Warren Bennis
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"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
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"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience." »George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
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"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience." »George Santayana
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"There are those people today who live the same life, day in day out, predictable, risk free, dreamless, they are the harshest critics of those who strive to break free from this mundane existence. In this world, too many people are afraid to pursue the life they truly desire, too afraid of being criticised by others, too afraid of failing, too afraid of not knowing the way. However there are also those who choose to follow their dreams, those who choose to rebel, those who strive to be free, those who live. Stay true to yourself; break free from the chains of society and live.May you too have the strength and courage to pursue your dreams." »Roger Chao
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