"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk."

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"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk."

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"Don't you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there's a huge possibility you'll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn't that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don't you find that scary?"

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"The only failure is giving up."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The shark had never begged Jonah in order to get him swallowed; Jonah's own actions took him into the shark's belly! Failure may not chase after you, but when you miss your way, you will rather go chasing failure!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Failure will teach you more wisdom than a great success."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Failure is our teacher, not the success."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it."

Ogwo David Emenike, Nigerian Author

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"If mediocrity is your benchmark, you always sit on the bench!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Percy grunted. 'Probably something to do with that creep Octavian. Maybe he was so bad at telling the future that he broke Apollo's powers."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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