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View all filters →It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
The sentence the whole address turns on, delivered to a Chicago club two years before he became President.
Genius is 1 per cent. inspiration and 99 per cent. perspiration.
Reported by his own biographers as a historic remark, in a chapter arguing that Edison spent his life repudiating the word genius.
A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today.
But what, to our eyes, may seem hopeless failure is often but the dawning of a greater success.
From Failure as a Success, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.
Failure is often the rock-bottom foundation of real success.
From Failure as a Success, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.
Failure is often the turning-point, the pivot of circumstance that swings us to higher levels.
From Failure as a Success, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.
High ideals, noble efforts will make seeming failures but trifles, they need not dishearten us; they should prove sources of new strength.
From Failure as a Success, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.
Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.
From Failure as a Success, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.
Life is not really what comes to us, but what we get from it.
From Failure as a Success, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.
Many of our failures sweep us to greater heights of success, than we ever hoped for in our wildest dreams.
From Failure as a Success, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.
But the true competition is the competition of the individual with himself,--his present seeking to excel his past.
From The Dignity of Self-Reliance, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.
If we seek ever to surpass ourselves, we are moving on a uniform line of progress, that gives a harmonious unifying to our growth in all its parts.
From The Dignity of Self-Reliance, reflecting on happiness, purpose, and growth through experience.
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