Failure

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  • Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
        Unknown   Best?
  • There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
        Annie Dillard   Best?
  • Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
        Isaac Asimov   Best?
  • Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • ...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.
        Epictetus   Best?
  • Life moves pretty fast. If you stop and look around every once in awhile, you might miss it.
        Matthew Broderick   Best?
  • Strategy is different from other things in that if your mistake the Way (of strategy), even a little, you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways.
        Miyamoto Musashi   Best?
  • Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
        Mitch Albom   Best?
  • Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
        Barry Goldwater   Best?
  • Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
        Oswald Chambers   Best?
  • Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
        Joshua J. Marine   Best?
  • The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared.
        P. J. Plauger   Best?
  • Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
        Maurice Setter   Best?
  • When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own intersts.
        Mara Mitchell   Best?
  • I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.
        Jacques le Blanc   Best?
  • The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
        Martha Beck   Best?
  • To love another person is to see the face of God.
        Victor Hugo   Best?
  • Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
        George Carlin   Best?
  • I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
        Logan Pearsall Smith   Best?
  • Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
        Robert Louis Stevenson   Best?
  • Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
        Emma Goldman   Best?
  • The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.
        Todd Ruthman   Best?
  • We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
        Cicero   Best?
  • You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
        Mary Pickford   Best?
  • Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
        Jules Renard   Best?
  • Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
        Les Brown   Best?

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