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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung
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I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Michael Jordan
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Success and failure are equally disastrous. -Tennessee Williams
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Theodore Roosevelt
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I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin
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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes. -Randy K. Milholland
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

Thomas Henry Huxley
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal
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Obviously a major malfunction. -Stephen Laberge
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What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Robert H. Schuller
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Orison Swett Marden
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. -Ben Stein
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Failure is a bottomless pit ready to devour you. If you always look up and never look down, failure is void.

Folashade' Ayanwale
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People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Giacomo Leopardi
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. -Quentin Crisp
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Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

Lawrence G. Lovasik
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers
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No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. -Al Gore
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When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Dennis Quaid
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Beverly Sills
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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. -Humphrey Davy
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Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford
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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Rick Pitino
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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. -Paul Tillich
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George E. Woodberry
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The only failure is not to try.

George Clooney
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. -William Saroyan
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Walt Whitman
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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon
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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'm a failure. -S. I. Hayakawa
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