quotes
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Pressure is a privilege.
Billie Jean King
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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things,
and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth.
I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it;
while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. Debs
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Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard Baruch
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando. A. Battista
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Do I contradict myself? Well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of
initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that
the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never
otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen
incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or
dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Goethe
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I want to suggest to you today, that unless we have a tolerant attitude toward mistakes - I might almost say "a positive attitude toward them" - we shall be behaving irrationally, unscientifically, and unsuccessfully. Now, of course, if you now say to me, "Look here, you weird Limey, are you seriously advocating relaunching the Edsel?" I will reply, "No." There are mistakes - and mistakes. There are true, copper-bottom mistakes like spelling the word "rabbit" with three Ms; wearing a black bra under a white shirt; or, to take a more masculine example, starting a land war in Asia. These are the kind of mistakes described by Mr. David Letterman as Brushes With Stupidity, because they have no reasonable chance of success.
John Cleese
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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas Edison
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Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
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Fat guy in a little coat.
Chris Farley
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Failure is only opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford
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When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that
one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton
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You don't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George, British prime minister
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If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
Anonymous
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And stand together, and yet not too near together. For even the pillars of the temple must stand apart;
and the oak tree and the cypress will not grow in each other's shadow.
Khalil Gibran
(And communicate. and respect each other. and trust each other.
it's not just about where you stand.)
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this:... Failed in business in '31. Defeated for the legislature in '32. Again failed in business in '34. Sweetheart died in '35. Had a nervous breakdown in '36. Defeated in election in '38. Defeated for Congress in '43. Defeated for Congress in '46. Defeated for Congress in '48. Defeated for Senate in '55. Defeated for Vice President in '56. Defeated for Senate in '58. Elected President in '60... This man was Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln's publicist?
(not really a quote, i know - yet it still belongs on this page.)
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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields
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Son. They caint put it in you, and they caint take it out of you.
Emil Skoda
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Courage does not see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin (supposedly, anyways)
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Finagle's Third Law: In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake. Corollaries 1. Nobody whom you ask for help will see it. 2. The first person who stops by, whose advice you really don't want to hear, will see it immediately.
Finagle?
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Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Augustus Hare