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«Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.»
Author: George E. Woodberry
| About:
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Failure
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defeat, failures, tried, tried and true
«Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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Friendship
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«Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.»
«Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.»
«Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Christianity, difficult, has-been, tried, wanting
«Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.»
Author: John Wooden
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although, Be a Player, convince, I Tried, players, tried, wanted, won
«Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity»
«Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.»
«Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Christianity, ever, Good Thing, might, tried
«As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.»
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