"Failure is the foundation of success: success is……" — Laozi
"Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the…
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have…
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get…
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't…
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