"If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying."
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"The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them."
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"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
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"Failure changes for the better, success for the worse."
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"Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure."
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"Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages."
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"We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen."
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"It is not the critic who counts"
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"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."
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"it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts."
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"The greatest failure in life is to stop trying."
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"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
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"In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all."
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"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure."
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"The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing."
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"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."
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"Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds."
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"To have a great idea, have a lot of them."
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"Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain."
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"I have had all the disadvantages required for success."
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