WISDOM IN FAILURE by Billi Lim
“…never stop believing in yourself, to think positive, visualize success and to have the conviction that you will succeed…”
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“There go all our mistakes! Now we can start afresh!”
~ Thomas A. Edison (after his factory caught fire)
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“What is your formula for achieving success?”
“Double your failure rate.”
~ Thomas J.Watson, IBM President
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“It is a slip and not a fall.”
~ Abrahim Lincoln
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“I think and think for months and years. 99 times, the conclusion is false. The 100th time I am right.”
~ Albert Einstein
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“Mistakes are a part of life… all you can hope is that they won’t be too expensive and that you don’t make the same mistake twice.”
~ Lee Iacocca
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“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
~ Elbert Hubbard
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“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
~ Thomas A. Edison
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“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
~ Lucretius
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“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
~ Michael Jordon
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“There is no failure, but only outcome.”
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“Remember you will not always win. But there is… always tomorrow…”
~ Dr. Maxwell Maltz
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“Sometimes it is alright to make the same mistake more than once. Isn’t that how we learn to walk and ride a bicycle?”
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“Failure is only a problem waiting to be solved.”
~ Billi Lim
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“A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies — the fear of failure.”
~ Dexter Yager
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“Failure is never final and success is never ending.”
~ Dr Robert Schuller
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“You’re not finished when you have failed once… you’re finished only when you quit.”
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“It’s what you have learnt after you failed that counts. Failing does not count.”
~ Billi Lim
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“Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but from playing a poor hand well.”
~ Denis Waitley
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“Most men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.”
~ Billy Sunday
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“Success is getting up just one more time after your last fall.”
~ Billi Lim
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“Failing doesn’t make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again, does!”
~ Richard Exley
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“Failure cannot happen in your life without your permission.”
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“Failure can be divided into those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.”
~ Reverend W.A. Nance
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“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”
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“The moment you stop making mistakes you stop learning.”
~ Billi Lim
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“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”
~ John Wooden
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“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 A Edison
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“Struggle, failure, triumph: while triumph is the thing sought, struggle has its joy, and failure is not without its uses.”
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“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.”
~ Dr Rob Gilbert
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“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
~ Japanese Proverb
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“I wasn’t afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.”
~ Anne Baxeter
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“There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.”
~ William Blake
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“A failure in life is one who lives and fails to learn.”
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“It’s nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there – that’s disgrace.”
~ Edmund Cooke
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“Poverty is the richest experience that can come to a man, an experience which, however, one must get away from as quickly as possible.”
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“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”
~ Sam Levenson
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“Successful people are just ex-failures who got mad.”
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“No one has the right to brand you a failure except yourself.”
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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
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“I have never known a cat to feel ashamed of itself because it failed to catch a mouse.”
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“Human beings are the only animal in the world who will get ulcers if they fail to get what they want.”
~ Billi Lim
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“We couldn’t learn anything unless we are willing to fail at it first.”
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“You can fail at anything in life without being a failure as a person.”
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“Failure is not the enemy of success. It is a teacher – a harsh teacher, but the best!”
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“You never fail. You only find ways that do not work.”
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“To the true entrepreneurs, “failures” are “experiences”.”
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“If you experience your failure early, the later ones are less painful.”
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“One of the greatest mistakes you can make in this life, is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
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“He who never climbs, rarely falls.”
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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“Failure is the greatest opportunity I have to know who I really am.”
~ John Killinger
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“One should have a desire for one’s goals that is so strong that it is able to numb the pain of failures during its pursuit.”
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“Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.”
~ Dr William J. Mayo
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“Don’t call it a mistake. Call it an education.”
~ Thomas A. Edison
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“Don’t ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It’s like saying you’re wiser today than you were yesterday.”
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“Past failures are guideposts for future success.”
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“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.”
~ Henry Ford
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“Failure doesn’t mean you’ll never make it. It just means it may take longer.”
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“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
~ Vince Lombardi
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“Even a clock which does not work is right twice in a day.”
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“Failure doesn’t mean you’ve been a fool to try. It means you have the courage to see what you can’t do.”
~ Billi Lim
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“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
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“Discouragement and failure are two of surest stepping stones to success.”
~ Dale Carnegie
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“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
~ Albert Einstein
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“No one is a failure who can truly say, “I have done my best.””
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“In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
~ Vince Lombardi
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“Stumbling is not falling.”
~ Portuguese Proverb
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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall.”
~ Oliver Goldsmith
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“Winning isn’t always finishing first. Sometimes winning is just finishing.”
~ Manuel Diotte
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“Failure could be due to Fear. Fear could be due to Failure. Replace both of them with FAITH.”
~ LaoGOH
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“Don’t play for safety – it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.”
~ Huge Walpole
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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.”
~ Anais Nin
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“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.”
~ Geena Adams
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“The most important thing when confronted with adversity is to concentrate on what to do next, not on what has gone wrong.”
~ Tom J. Fatjo
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“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.”
~ Malcom S. Forbes
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“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probable does not lead anywhere.”
~ F.A. Clark
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“In calm water every ship has a good captain.”
~ Swedish Proverb
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“Little minds are tames and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.”
~ Washington Irving
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“Obstacles will look large or small to a person depending on whether one is large or small.”
~ Dr Sidney N. Bremer
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“Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water means to burning metal, it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroy it.”
~ Eliza Tabor
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“Resisting adversity causes some men to break, others to break record.”
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“Tough times never last, tough people do.”
~ Dr Robert Schuller
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“Should you find it hard to get to sleep tonight, just remember the homeless family who has no bed to lie in.”
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“Should you have a bad day at work, think of the man who has been out of work for the last three months.”
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“Should you notice a new gray hair in the mirror, think of the cancer patient in chemotherapy who wishes she had hair to examine.”
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“Should you find yourself at a loss and pondering what is life all about, what is my purpose? Be thankful, there are those who didn’t live long enough to get the opportunity.”
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“We never realize how well off we are in any situation until we fall into a worse one.”
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“Even the darkest hour has only 60 minutes.”
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“Life is a cycle of varying events – fortunes and misfortunes.”
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“The sun shines after every storm.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Behind the clouds, the sun’s still shining.”
~ Henry Wadworth Longfellow
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“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
~ Hal Borland
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“And this, too will soon pass.”
~ Abrahim Lincoln
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“A successful man is one who can build a strong foundation with the bricks that others threw at him.”
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“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
~ Mark Twain
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“Rejection (objection) is not fatal. It is merely someone else’s opinion.”
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“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
~ Henry Emerson Fosdick
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“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.”
~ Henry Ford
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“Men who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those men who are doing it.”
~ Chinese Proverb
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“At first, people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, and then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done – then it is done, and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
~ Francis Hodgson Burnett
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“The problem with most of us is we stop trying in trying times! “
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“Don’t get discouraged; it’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
~ Trotty Veck
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“Judge not those who try and fail. Question those who fail to try. “
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“Dad’s advice: “Margo, don’t be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.””
~ Margo Kaufman
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“We are all born with great reservoirs of abilities and geniuses which we fail to utilize fully. Instead we are often wrapped up in the silly game of trying to match or resemble other people.”
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“The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.”
~ Anatole France
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“The last four words: “… it might have been.”” (If only. What if.)
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“Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am 75 and yet not even truly to have lived.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Most people are content to inhale and exhale, eat and sleep… day in and day out.”
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“Life is a play, ’tis not the length, but its performance that counts.”
~ Seneca
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“Life is not a-having and a-getting, but a-being and a-becoming. “
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“I would rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”
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“Those who can – do. Those who can’t – criticize.”
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition form mediocre minds…”
~ Albert Einstein
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“He who belittles you is only trying to cut you down to his size.”
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“If it were not for the doers, the critics of this world would have long been out of business.”
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“A critic is a person who knows he wants to go somewhere but can’t drive a car.”
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“People blame others for their silence. They blame those who talk too much and those who talk in moderation.”
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“In the history of mankind, nobody has ever erected a statue to the critic.”
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“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
~ Bill Cosby
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“… It got me out of what I shouldn’t have been doing and into what I should be doing…”
~ Mark Victor Hansen
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“In his greatest hours of trial the immortal Lincoln was heard, often to say, “And this, too will soon pass.”
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“The real measure of a man’s worth is how much he would be worth if he lost all his money.”
~ Harold J. Smith
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“Failure is delayed success.”
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“You did not fail in an exam, you just do not know how to answer the question.”
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“Pass and fail” is the old way of explaining how much you know. The new way is “knowledge and ignorance” (知之。无知）.
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“Mull: “Shake it off and step up… (repeat)””
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“There are 3 types who play the game: (1) Those who are winners and know they are winners. (2) The losers who know they are losers. (3) Those who are not winners but don’t know it.”
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“Econoimic stagnation my be prolonged, but has never been permanent.”
~ Dr Mahathir
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WIT = What it takes
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“(Christopher Columbus) didn’t know where he was going when he started. When he got there, he didn’t know where he was and when he got back, he didn’t know where he had been.”
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Don’t try to match or resemble other people.
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