If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

About Carl Jung

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Carl Gustav Jung ( YUUNG; Swiss Standard German: [ˈkarl ˈjʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, correspondent, and academic, best known for his concept of...

More quotations from Carl Jung

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

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The real existence of an enemy upon whom one can foist off everything evil is an enormous relief to one's conscience. You can then at least say, without hesitation, who the devil is; you are quite certain that the cause of your misfortune is outside, and not in your own attitude.

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More quotations tagged with “failure”

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possible only in one way.

—Beverly Sills

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

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