"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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"Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done."

Bernstein, Al on fools and foolishness
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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way."

Billings, Josh on fools and foolishness
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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fools and foolishness
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"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."

Ellis, Havelock on fools and foolishness
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"There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him."

Gabirol, Ibn on fools and foolishness
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on goals
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"The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing."

Unknown, Source on ending
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Hayes, Helen on achievement
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"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."

Butterworth, Eric on desire
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"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one."

Cato The Elder on fame   

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

Cato The Elder on fame   

"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."

Hopkins, Tom on failure
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"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

Herbert, George on failure
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"He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."

Heller, Joseph on failure   

"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on failure
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"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

Kettering, Charles F. on failure   

"Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself."

Hubbard, Elbert on failure
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"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

James, William on failure
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"The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds."

Jones, Lloyd on failure
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"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."

Mansfield, Katherine on failure   

"Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success."

Lutzer, Erwin W. on failure   

"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

Longinus, Cassius on failure   

"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

Kettering, Charles F. on failure
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"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

Kennedy, Robert F. on failure
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"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

Kaufman, Herbert on failure
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"No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward."

Bose, Amar Gopal on failure
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"Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure."

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell on failure
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"To win you've got to stay in the game."

Bristol, Claude M. on failure
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"Failure is the tuition you pay for success."

Brunell, Walter on failure
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"Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying."

Burford, Frank on failure
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"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes."

Baxter, Anne on failure
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"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure."

Baxter, Anne on failure
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"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."

Bartkowski, Steve on failure
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"I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it."

Aaron, Hank on failure
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"You win only if you aren't afraid to lose."

Aoki, Rocky on failure
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"To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."

Allen, James on failure
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