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"Her failure was a useful preliminary to success."
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"Rather than allowing your failures to define you, learn from your experience to do better next time."
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"My reputation grows with every failure."
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Personal Development
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
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Personal Development
"The fear of failure is a liability."
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Personal Development
"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen."
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Personal Development
"My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year."
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Personal Development
"Failure is a word that I simply don't accept."
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Personal Development
"There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible."
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Personal Development
"Failure is your inability to recognize that you have made the same mistakes again. Making a mistake is normal, it turns abnormal when it's not recognized!"
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Personal Development
"Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset."
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"Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."
Life
"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."
Life
"She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making."
Self
"They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity."
Peace
"As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep."
Marriage
"Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life."
Loneliness
"It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other."
Reality
"The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay."
Change
"Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!"
Truth
"It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes."
Perception
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