“There's no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible...”
Max Tegmark book Our Mathematical Universe
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2014)
At her eighty-sixth birthday celebration (15 February 1906)
Variant: Failure is impossible.
Source: History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
“There's no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible...”
Max Tegmark book Our Mathematical Universe
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2014)
“It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
Letter to Robert E. Sherwood (1946)
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)
Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) President of the Confederate States of America
Republic: A Monthly Magazine (1873), p. 384
Charles Henry Fowler (1837–1908) American bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 137.
Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician
Chap. IV, Democracy and Dictatorship <br class="br">“Marxism and Bolshevism: Democracy and Dictatorship,” (1934) http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1934/bolshevism/index.htm
“Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)