"Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life"
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"Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades."
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"Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
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"Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head."
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"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure."
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"Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things."
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"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
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"Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man."
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"That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning."
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"The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing."
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"My past is everything I failed to be."
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"One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again."
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"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
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"The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try."
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"Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you."
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"He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."
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"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king."
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"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens."
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"Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail."
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"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."
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