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" Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. "

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" Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments. "

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Lyndon B. Johnson

" It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. "

Charlotte Whitton

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" Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes. "

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" Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something - and the film was a failure. "

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T. Boone Pickens

" Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure. "

" Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house. "

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Elizabeth Taylor

" As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. "

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

" Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. "

Charles Horton Cooley

" The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. "

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

" Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. "

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