One who fears failure limits his activities.
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.
It is better to experience than to be told.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.
Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
If any good results to a man from believing a lie it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
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