#lure

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#again #deal #failure #first #how

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. ↗

— B. F. Skinner

#best #circumstances #failure #may #mistake

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#discovery #failure #finding #learn #made

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. ↗

— Huston Smith

#into #lured #metaphysics #new #newtonian

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#address #benefits #breakdown #debt #difficulty

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#away #beliefs #bind #conservatism #conservatives

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#expectations #failure #fear #future #great

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#culmination #failure #success #success is #usually

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#anxiety #avoid #failures #fire #great

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#end #excuse #failure #itself #need