"We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure."

Failure, Indecision, Uncertainty, Time

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"We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure."

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"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

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"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

Charles Kettering, American Inventor

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"Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."

Henry Ford, American Businessman

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Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

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"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is."

Rob Liano, American Author

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"Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"The only failure is giving up."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

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"Intuition is seeing with the soul."

Intuition

"...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace."

Grace

"She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote."

Fulfillment

"None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light."

Salvation

"Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror."

Horror

"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."

Metaphor

"When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster."

Compassion

"The less I have, the less I can lose."

Life

"Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path."

Fate

"You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next."

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