#fail

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#did #failures #get #him #his

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail. ↗

— Peter Marshall

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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

#been #book #different #every #failure

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. ↗

— Yann Martel

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Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime. ↗

— Francis Maude

#crime #cutting #failing #our #party

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. ↗

— Dave Matthews

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#desire #did #discover #events #failed

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. ↗

— John Mayer

#become #defined #failure #guitarist #hendrix

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. ↗

— John McCarthy

#advance #blame #countries #course #failure