| 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. -- Alexandre (père) Dumas |
| Author:
Dumas, Alexandre (père)Era:
1802 |
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| There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being. -- Buddha |
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BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. -- Ferdinand Foch |
| Author:
Foch, FerdinandEra:
1851 |
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| The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. -- Nelson Algren |
| Author:
Algren, NelsonEra:
1909 |
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| Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. -- Farrar |
| Author:
FarrarEra:
1831 |
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| Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. -- Thomas Alva Edison |
| Author:
Edison, Thomas A.Era:
1847 |
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| My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. -- Rabindranath Tagore |
| Author:
Tagore, RabindranathEra:
1861 |
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| Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Author:
Bierce, AmbroseEra:
1842 |
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| The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Broun |
| Author:
Broun, HeywoodEra:
1888 |
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