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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated…it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Steinborn 1944
- Failure
Some succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden1910–2010
- Motivation & Goals
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
- Business
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
- Business
- Technology
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Failure
If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
- Education
- Failure
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. ‘Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine1737–1809In: Rowena Holloway Pray it Forward: Daily Meditations, iUniverse, 1 August 2007, p. 166.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung1875–1961
- Failure
- Knowledge
It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.
George S. Patton1885–1945
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
- Failure
You’re never beaten until you admit it.
George S. Patton1885–1945
- Failure
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Motivation & Goals