"It is hard to fail, but it..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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“Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.”
“Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.”
“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
More on Failure
“Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place.”
“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”
“Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.”