„A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.“

— Chinua Achebe

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„A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.“
— George Orwell
„Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.“
— Henry Ford
„If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure“
— Bob Dylan
„There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail“
— Henry Ford