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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
“Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure”
The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: Contemplation and Action, 1902-1914, ed. Richard A. Rempel, Andrew Brink and Margaret Moran (Routledge, 1993, : Textual Notes, p. 555; also in Laurence J. Peter Quotations for our time (1978), p. 188
Attributed from posthumous publications
Context: Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 3 (p. 27)
Variant: Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Source: quoteslyfe.com ([https://www.quoteslyfe.com/author/A-P-J-Abdul-Kalam-quotes online)
“Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.”
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
“With the American failure came world failure.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XX, Where It Went, p. 293
“When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.”
“Opinion: Biden’s Afghanistan policy shows the world a wobbly, impulsive U.S.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/27/bidens-afghanistan-policy-shows-world-wobbly-impulsive-us/ The Washington Post, (Aug. 27, 2021)
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