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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself."	Georges Clemenceau
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head."	Jean Cocteau
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us."	Charles Caleb Colton
"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."	(John) Calvin Coolidge
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."	Bill Cosby
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."	Douglas Couplan
"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."	Norman Cousins
"Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas."	George Crane
"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail."	Philip
"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough; the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions? Let us examine the question."	Aleister Crowley
"The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures."	Humphrey Davy
"At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings."	Gérard Depardieu
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."	John Dewey
"It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber, some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started. They stayed where they were. They dropped back. They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual, and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power."	Ray Dickinson
"It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed."	Annie Dillard
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"Success is never permanent, and failure is never final."	Mike Ditka
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Abraham Lincoln	Aleister Crowley	Alice Kahn
Anais Nin	André Maurois	Andy Anderson
Annie Dillard	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	Aristotle
Arsenio Hall	Augustus W. Hare	Author Unknown
A. E. Hotchner	Barbara Grizzuti Harrison	Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Berthe Morisot	Bill Cosby
Bruce Lee	Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Franklin Kettering
Clare Boothe Luce	Dorothea Broude	Dorthea Bragg
Douglas Couplan	Dr. Joyce	Edgar Albert Guest
Edward Eggleston	Elbert Hubbard	Epictetus
Erich Fromm	Flower A. Newhouse	Frances Watkins Harper
Francois Arouet	George Burns	George Eliot
Georges Clemenceau	George Crane	George Stanley McGovern
George Washington Carver	God's Little Instruction Book	Gérard Depardieu
Harold Loukes	Harrison Ford	Helen Gurley Brown
Henry Ford	Henry Anatole Grunwald	Herbert Kaufman
Herman Melville	Hoshang N. Akhtar	Humphrey Davy
H. Stanley Judd	James 2:10 Bible	James Albert Michener
James Arthur Baldwin	James Lane Allen	Jean Cocteau
Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Dewey
John Keats	John Burroughs	John Christian Bovee
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	Joseph Heller
Lao-Tzu	Lloyd Jones	Louise Nevelson
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Martin Luther
Mary Bertone	Mary Catherine Bateson	Max Beerbohm
Michael Eisner	Michael J. Gelb	Mike Ditka
Moshe Arens	Napolean Hill	Nicholas Murray Butler
Norman Cousins	Orison Swett Marden	Paulson Frenckner
Paul Aubuchon	Philip	Philip Caldwell
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ray Dickinson	Richard Exely
Richard Hofstadter	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Richard R. Grant
Robert Browning	Robert Albert Bloch	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert F. Goheen	Robert Hewison	Robert Logan
Rod Hughes	Rosalynn Smith Carter	Rush Limbaugh
Samuel Beckett	Scott Adams	Siddha Nagarjuna
Sir James Matthew Barrie	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Loren
S(amuel) I(chiye) Hayakawa	Ted W. Engstrom	Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison	Tim McMahon
Tom Hopkins	Toni Cade Bambera	Truman Capote
Ty Howard	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Václav Havel
Warren G. Bennis	William Faulkner	William H(oward) Gass
William James "Will" Durant	William John Bennett	William Lloyd George
William S. Gilbert	Woody Allen	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	(John) Calvin Coolidge	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling