#failure

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. ↗

— Lucille Ball

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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. ↗

— Humphry Davy

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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

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And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. ↗

— John Dewey

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