"There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones."
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"Each failure brings you one step closer to success."
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"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."
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"Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow."
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"There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated"
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"People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story."
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"All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears."
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"Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting."
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"In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca."
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"To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can."
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"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."
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"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"
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"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself."
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"Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself."
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"My life has been nothing but a failure."
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"We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success."
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"Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t."
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"Bad excuses are worse than none."
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"Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice"
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"How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile."
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