"Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility."
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"He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid."
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"To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give."
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"I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated."
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"Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them."
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"In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity."
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"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it."
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"I was shipwrecked before I got aboard."
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"Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it."
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"If you think you can - you can!"
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"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility."
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"Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe."
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"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us."
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"You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more."
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"I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons."
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"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
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"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
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"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best."
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"Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires."
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"When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself."
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