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- If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.
- Author Unknown
- Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.
- H. L. Wayland
- I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody.
- Herbert B. Swope
- Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
- Joseph Sugarman
- Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
- Jawaharal Nehru
- To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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