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"Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve."
"Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail."
"I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time."
"He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail"
"Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more."
"When strict with oneself, one rarely fails."
"Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose."
"You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail."
"Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail."
"Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on."
"Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do."
"Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail."
"Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option."
"Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail."
"Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair."
"The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing."
"A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing."
"People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them."
"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."
"In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly."
