"If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes."
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"To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm."
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"The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life."
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"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."
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"Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up."
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"I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way."
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"The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal."
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"Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette."
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"Failure is often the line of least persistence."
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"The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."
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"In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure."
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"It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are."
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"All my successes have been built on my failures."
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"Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next."
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"If you're not failing, you're not trying anything."
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"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
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"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life."
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"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."
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"Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me."
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"Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails."
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