Quote by George Eliot
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot

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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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Stubbornness
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot

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Failure
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Ones only rival is ones own potentialities. Ones only failure is failing to live up to ones own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. – Abraham Maslow

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Failure

What weve got here is a failure to communicate. – Donn Pearce

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Failure

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. – Eric Hoffer

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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. – Orlando Bloom

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Failure

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