Every failure can be considered as a tra... by Harry Emerson Fosdick | We Heart Quotes

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Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Other quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

People

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

God

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

War

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Power

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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