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" He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

Failure

Disaster

Fear

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" I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. "

" None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature. "

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" All the men of wealth should remember that everybody in a community has got, in some way, to be supported. I want to see them so that they can support themselves by their own labor. "

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" If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. "

" I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at. "

" Mistakes are the portals of discovery. "

" If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure. "

" Success and failure are equally disastrous. "

" There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. "

" Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst. "

" For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened. "

" Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes. "

" One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. "

" So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste. "

" I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can. "

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Happy

" To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. "

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" Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower. "

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