Abraham Maslow
Psychologist
"One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities."
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Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
"Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more."
Helen Keller
Author, Activist
"I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do."
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"When you stop being so afraid of failing you become much more free to succeed"
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"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
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"The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail"
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"It's only hubris if I fail."
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"The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock."
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"A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor."
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"There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot."
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"Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency."
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"Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future."
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"It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit."
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"Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse."
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"Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord."
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"Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners."
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"If you don't fail, you're not even trying."
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"Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see."
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"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."
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"When all else fails, give up and go to the library."
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"When all else fails, take a vacation."
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"Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do)."
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"Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness."
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