"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success."

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Source : Havelock Ellis (1936). “Questions of Our Day”

Havelock Ellis

#Positive Quotes #Business Quotes #Failure Quotes

“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.”
“I really don't think that an older worker can stop age discrimination, but you can successfully distract the employer from that issue if you focus on the reason they really want to hire you and that can make you more successful. It's up to you to demonstrate that.”
“Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period.”
“I'll try to be what Father loves to call me, a 'little woman,' and not be rough and wild but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.”
“... the final judge was truth -- immortal.”
“You handle animals. You deal with people.”
“It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about.”
“I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.”

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