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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

— Paul Tillich

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

— Thomas Fuller

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

— B. C. Forbes

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

— Morihei Ueshiba

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

— T. D. Jakes

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

— Maxwell Maltz

✗Opposing Perspectives

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

— John Burroughs

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

— Lao Tzu

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

— John Burroughs

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

— Bridget Riley