I have not failed. by Thomas Edison

I have not failed.
by Thomas Edison

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon

Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau

Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

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I have not failed.by Thomas Edison

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I have not failed.
by Thomas Edison