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High failure is better than low success.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Table-Talk
The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail.
KEN KESEY, Sometimes a Great Notion
- There's no disgrace in failing, lad,
- Though friends and foes deride;
- In fact, a failure's not so bad
- As never having tried.
Failing tastes of bile and dog vomit. Shame on any man who gets used to that taste.
The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.
STEVE MARTIN, Time Magazine, Aug. 24, 1987
I'm very proud of my failures. I'm perverse that way.
BARRY DILLER, Playboy, Jul. 1989
We learn from failure, not from success!
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