Eugene O'Neill Quotes
Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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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.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
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Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
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We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
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As a nation, we need to do everything we can to make sure those who have served have the tools they need to succeed in civilian life.
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
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Three or four years ago a distinguished Frenchman, M. Hovelacque, published an article on America in the Revue de Paris in which he maintained that the essential weakness of our American civilization lay in the failure of our education to produce any equivalent of the superior man of Confucius or the καλὸς κἀγαθός of the Greeks.
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As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
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There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate.
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Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.
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People can be so heartless and dirty.
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I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage. Harold B. Lee
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Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.
