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29 Matches Found.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Playwright
What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist
Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) Indian Novelist
Cheer Up! 'tis no use to be glum, boys 'Tis written, since fighting begun, That sometimes we fight and sometimes we conquer, And sometimes we fight and we run.
- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) American Football Coach
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
- Agatha Christie
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself.
- Mary Tyler Moore (1937-) American Actress
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
- Bernard Williams (1929-) English Philosopher
Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
- J.B. Priestly (1894-1984) English Author
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher
The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every time we fall.
- Robert Schuller (1926-) American Minister, Evangelist
Tough times never last. Tough people do.
- Edmund Vance Cooke (1866-1932) Canadian Poet
You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face. It's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there, that's disgrace.
- William C. Durant (1861-1947) American Manufacturer, Founder of General Motors
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
- John Burroughs (1837-1921) American Naturalist and Writer
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things."
- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) American Football Coach
It doesn't matter how often you get knocked down; what matters is how often you get back up.
- Anonymous
Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone; he also struck out more often than anyone.
- John J. McCloy (1895-1989) American Lawyer and Presidential Advisor
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
- Mary Pickford (1893-1979) Canadian Actress
If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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