"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on failure
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"You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment."

Brown, Les on failure
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"Failure is an event, never a person."

Brown, William D. on failure   

"Failure is the tuition you pay for success."

Brunell, Walter on failure
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"The only people who never fail are those who never try."

Chase, Ilka on failure
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"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty --the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"We are all alike, on the inside."

Twain, Mark on equality
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"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

Twain, Mark on evolution
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly."

Twain, Mark on family
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"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

Land, Edwin H. on creativity
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"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be."

Carlyle, Thomas on character
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"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

Marx, Karl on opportunity
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"All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves."

Cotvos on power
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"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on agreement
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"Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent."

Proverb, Spanish on agreement   

"Time and I against any two."

Proverb, Spanish on time   

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you."

Proverb, Spanish on gossip
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"Never trust the teller, trust the tale."

Lawrence, D. H. on gossip
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"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will."

Pythagoras on gossip
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

Proverb, Chinese on adversity
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"Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life."

Waitley, Denis on responsibility   

"Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held."

Hall, Milton on learning
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"Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates."

Szasz, Thomas on self discovery
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"Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose."

Proverb, Turkish on humankind
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"Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one."

Proverb, Turkish on wisdom
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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on humankind
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"Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."

Twain, Mark on complaints and complaining
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"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

Hugo, Victor on compliments
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"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on relationship
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"There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them."

Proverb, French on miracles
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"When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have."

Proverb, French on action
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