"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Aurelius, Marcus on power
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"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."

Baudrillard, Jean on change
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"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

Beauvoir, Simone De on change
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"If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place."

Bellin, Gita on change
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"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

Branden, Nathaniel on change
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on change
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"From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory."

Unknown, Source on failure   

"When you fall, don't get up empty handed"

Unknown, Source on failure   

"You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"People don't fail, they give up"

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Past failures are guideposts to success."

Unknown, Source on failure   

"Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed."

Unknown, Source on failure   

"Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

Proverb, Chinese on progress
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Peart, Neil on choice
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"Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try"

Unknown, Source on failure
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"A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

Unknown, Source on failure   

"Success is the proper utilization of failure."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

Patton, George S. on failure
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"Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."

Nixon, Richard M. on failure
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"Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet."

Proverb, German on failure
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"If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see."

Stern, Richard Martin on failure   

"The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall."

Unknown, Source on failure   

"I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody."

Swope, Herbert B. on failure
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"Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces."

Sugarman, Joseph on failure
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"If you've never failed you've never tried."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."

Phillips, Wendell on failure
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"Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."

Salak, John Charles on failure
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"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet."

Schuller, Robert H. on failure
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"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."

Seneca on failure
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"The highest qualities of character must be earned."

Abbott, Lyman on character
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"Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."

Barker, Joel A. on leadership
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"The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive."

Batten, Joe on leadership
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"The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

Augustine, St. on leadership
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"The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow."

Anderson, Marian on leadership   

"A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it."

Adelman, Ken on leadership
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