George Horace Lorimer Quotes
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.George Horace Lorimer
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom -
Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
Jack Youngblood -
Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian -
Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
Halima Aden -
Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
Adam Grant -
Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
Irwin Redlener
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens -
Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
Natalie Massenet -
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
Lady Gregory -
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
Albert Claude -
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason Cooley -
I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual.
Karan Patel
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I find rejection or failure to be a really interesting and valuable experience.
Brian Grazer -
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
Douglas Coupland -
I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.
Mary Beth Patterson -
We've been publishing the TechStars data fully since the beginning on TechStars.com. For every single company, you can see if it's a failure, success, how much they raised. Entrepreneurs deserve that sort of transparency from accelerators, and it's not hard to do.
David Cohen -
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
Phil Klay -
I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.
Lauren Groff
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
In my childhood, and particularly when I take the responsibility, I already have sort of keen desire, we must change our system. Then as soon as we reach India, 1959, at once we start working for democratization. Now here if remain in a political sort of field, supreme leader, at the same time religious leader, that may become hindrance of proper democracy.
Dalai Lama -
I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.
Beverly Sills -
All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
Edith Stein -
But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man...
Tone Loc -
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
George Horace Lorimer