"Don't let failure get you down. Babe..." - Quote by Lou Holtz
Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
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“Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.”
“I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.”
“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
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“Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up. We never gave in. We never became bitter. We didn't hate. We continued to press on. And that's what we're saying: There are some ups, there are some downs, and when you're not down, you must have the capacity and the ability to get up and keep going.”
“I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.”
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
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“The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.”
“The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.”
“Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.”