"Failure cannot cope with persistence."
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"There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room."
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"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."
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"On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong."
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"Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success."
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"The cautious seldom err."
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"Several excuses are always less convincing than one."
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"A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way."
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"I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work."
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"Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure."
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"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
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"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."
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"If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible."
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"It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you."
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"It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult)."
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"You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones."
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"Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance."
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"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
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"Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success."
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"Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits."
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