Civilization Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health…

— Harold Innis

“The world is full of educated derelicts”

— Calvin Coolidge

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

— Elizabeth May

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

— Michael Eisner

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems…

— John C. Maxwell

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

— Reggie Jackson

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

— Calvin Coolidge

“Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I've failed in communication...and so I've learned to have open and honest dialogue at the opportune, and appropriate time. I've failed in relationships...and so…

— Katrena Patterson

Failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

— Mary Pickford

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

— Thomas Hood

One who fears failure limits his activities.

— Henry Ford

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

— Napoleon Hill