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When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failur...

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I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you r...

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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

As it was, she always did whatever occurred to her, which was, admittedly, not difficult for someone...

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I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was a...

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There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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Henry David ThoreauI to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live ...

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Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failu...

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No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed els...

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It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least wh...

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I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I t...

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Hunter S. ThompsonAncient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee...

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...[H]uman reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all po...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals: & the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics

What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge ...

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Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short spa...

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You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of ...

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Isaac DeutscherThe Prophet Armed: Trotsky

You have to be free to fail in this world.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught ...

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Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or...

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Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in th...

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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and olde...

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Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mis...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the di...

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Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many...

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Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societi...

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Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that wo...

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Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing o...

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The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly."We ...

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But to him who tries and fails and dies I give great honor and glory and tears.

My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregna...

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You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then ...

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It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes hav...

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Colin "I'm just--I'm just a failure. what if this is it? -----andI never do anything significant and...

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd fai...

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You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for indi...

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War remains the decisive human failure.

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committe...

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John PowellWill the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication

No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made...

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When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committe...

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John PowellWill the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication

The failure mode of clever is “asshole.

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...

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When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls ...

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the pr...

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Dispassionately, reasonably, he contemplated the failutre that his life must appear to be. He had wa...

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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to fo...

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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fat...

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Jon StewartAmerica (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...

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Jules VerneA Journey to the Center of the Earth

His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented real...

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Julian BarnesFlaubert's Parrot

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

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Ken RobinsonThe Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Failure is an opportunity.If you blame someone else,there is no end to the blame.Therefore the Maste...

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I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perce...

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Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of pe...

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I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance betw...

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It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly ...

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Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a...

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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try agai...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

So few are the easy victories as the ultimate failures.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Our relationship, however, soon went awry. Occasionally, something will happen that will change your...

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Marilyn MansonThe Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right....

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It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and out-learn everyone… And if...

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You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encoun...

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Bellgrove, eminently lovable, because of his individual weakness, his incompetence, his failure as a...

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For what is more lovable than failure?

Failure, it occurred to him, was the secular equivalent of sin. Modern secular man was born into a w...

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Michael FraynTowards the End of the Morning

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater bene...

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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to ...

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The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who at...

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Napoleon HillOutwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you eve...

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Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war ag...

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I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

Failure, they say, is a growth experience; you learn from failure. I wish that were true. It seems t...

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Nora EphronI Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections