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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. -- Elbert Hubbard
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. -- William Empson
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. -- Eleanor Catton
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. -- Orison Swett Marden
As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington. -- Doc Hastings
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high. -- John P. Kotter
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. -- E. O. Wilson
I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do. -- Daniel L. Doctoroff
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt. -- Barack Obama
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book. -- Michael Koryta
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. -- John Wooden
The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure. -- Francis of Assisi
The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort. -- S. Truett Cathy
Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure. -- Hugh Prather
Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort. -- W. Bruce Cameron
Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort. -- Michael Josephson
On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure. -- Dalai Lama
The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten. -- Sri Chinmoy
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure. -- Judith Martin
While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. -- John F. Kennedy
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality. -- Nelson Goodman
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all. -- John Wooden
If everything came easy in business everyone would have a business and be millionaires. It takes hard work, consistent effort and courage to keeping fighting the monster of failure. -- Delaine Robins

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