Eric Hoffer Quotes About Failure
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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
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It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
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One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure
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For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
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