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Oscar Wilde:Ambition is the last refuge of the


Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
by Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wilde:Ambition is the last refuge of the


Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
by Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wilde:Ambition is the last refuge of


Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
by Oscar Wilde


William Feather:Success makes us intolerant of


Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.
by William Feather


Farrar:The only real failure in life is not to


The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
by Farrar


Lewis Morris:How far high failure overleaps the


How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success.
by Lewis Morris


Max Beerbohm:There is much to be said for


There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
by Max Beerbohm


Rosalind Russel:Success is a public affair.


Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
by Rosalind Russel


Ambrose Bierce:Destiny: A tyrant's authority for


Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
by Ambrose Bierce


Lyndon B. Johnson:We have seen too much success


We have seen too much success to have become obsessed with failure.
by Lyndon B. Johnson


J. Danforth Quayle:If we don't succeed, we run


If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
by J. Danforth Quayle


Herbert Samuel:It takes two to make a marriage a


It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make ita failure.
by Herbert Samuel


Edward R. Simmons:The difference between failure


The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
by Edward R. Simmons


Porsche:If we learn for each success, and each


If we learn for each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then, at the end, we will havefulfilled our potential and performed well.
by Porsche


Herbert Bayard Swope:I cannot give you the


I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.
by Herbert Bayard Swope


George R. Kirkpatrick:Nature gave man two ends


Nature gave man two ends one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
by George R. Kirkpatrick


Alexandre (père) Dumas:A person who doubts


A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
by Alexandre (père) Dumas


Dr. Robert W. Prehoda:In ecology, as in


In ecology, as in economics, TANSTAAFL(There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) is intended to warn that every gain is won at some cost. Failure to recognize the 'no free lunch' law causes the buffalo hunter mentality syndrome the unthinking assumption that there will always be plenty because there always has been plenty.
by Dr. Robert W. Prehoda


Theodore Roosevelt:Far better it is to dare


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 much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
by Theodore Roosevelt


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