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** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], speech at the Hamilton Club, Chicago (10 April 1899) ''The Strenuous Life'' (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 1, p. 320 (1926).
** [[Theodore Roosevelt]], speech at the Hamilton Club, Chicago (10 April 1899) ''The Strenuous Life'' (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 1, p. 320 (1926).
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* It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.
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* It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default.
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** [[J. K. Rowling]], 2008 Harvard commencement speech {{fix cite}}
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** [[J. K. Rowling]], 2008 Harvard commencement speech{{fix cite}}
* We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what ''will'' do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
* We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what ''will'' do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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* '''Every failure is a step to success.''' Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.
* '''Every failure is a step to success.''' Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.
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** [[William Whewell]], ''Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England'', Lecture 7. (1852).
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** [[William Whewell]], ''Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England'', Lecture 7 (1852).
* Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
* Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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** [[Ben Carson]], ''Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story'' (p. 75)
** [[Ben Carson]], ''Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story'' (p. 75)
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* It's a [[failure]] only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
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* It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
** [[Ben Carson]], ''Take The Risk'' (p. 36)
** [[Ben Carson]], ''Take The Risk'' (p. 36)
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===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''===
===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''===