"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
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"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth."
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"If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn."
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"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."
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"I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance."
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"Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures."
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"Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing."
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"Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success."
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"Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option."
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"You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed."
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"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."
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"success is 99% failure"
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"One who fears failure limits his activities."
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"Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes, and for your failures. You can't go blaming others, or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live."
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
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"I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about."
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"Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final."
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"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality."
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"Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part."
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"In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental."
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