"Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself."
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"Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result."
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"Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm."
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"Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent"
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"Most progress is most failure."
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"Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat."
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"I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself."
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"The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate."
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"Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides."
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"Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed."
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"Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort."
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"Stop thinking of failing."
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"It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today."
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"Great individuals make great successes out of failure."
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"I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed."
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"The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose."
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"When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation."
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"It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice."
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"When success turns a man's head he faces failure"
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""I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.""
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