
“Ninety Percent of those who fail are not actually defeated they simply quit.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), The Defeated Ones
“Ninety Percent of those who fail are not actually defeated they simply quit.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.”
Variant: Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World
A Warsaw Diary, in Granta [magazine], no. 15 (Cambridge, England, 1985)
“Those who fail I find successful,”
Lunatic. 6
पागल (The Lunatic)
Context: I see the blind man as the people's guide, the ascetic in his cave a deserter; those who act in the theater of lies I see as dark buffoons. Those who fail I find successful, and progress only backsliding. am I squint-eyed, Or just crazy? Friend, I'm crazy. Look at the withered tongues of shameless leaders, The dance of the whores At breaking the backbone on the people's rights. When the sparrow-headed newsprint spreads its black lies In a web of falsehood
“He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.”
Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward