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“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

Work Education Talking Liberty Greater Ignorance Failure Ignorant Live Life Poor Richard Blockheads Being Ignorant

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.”

People Life Next Work Failure Overcoming Difficulty Adversity Angle Taxi Plugging In

Author:Andre Gide

“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”

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Author:Charles Kettering

“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”

Work Failing Failure Planning Preparation Preparing Recreation Preparing To Fail

Author:Mike Murdock

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”

“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”

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Book:The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More

Source: The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”

Lasts Work Failure Ambition Refuge My Ambition

Author:Oscar Wilde

“It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.”

Inspirational Should Work Ability Trouble Failure Appreciate Appreciation Overcoming Failure

Book:Lunyu

Source: Lunyu

“Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“We are all failures - at least the best of us are.”

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Author:James M. Barrie

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”

“Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.”

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Book:They Could Not Sleep

Source: They Could Not Sleep

“Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.”

Mean Long Night Work Failure Luck Train Endure Hardship Devoted Appointments Long Nights

Book:'Tween You An' I: Some Little Problems of Life

Source: 'Tween You An' I: Some Little Problems of Life

“We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?”

Source: Future Primitive Revisited

“Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work”

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda