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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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No man fails who does his best. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail. ↗

— Peter Marshall

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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

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If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. ↗

— Yann Martel

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Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime. ↗

— Francis Maude

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I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. ↗

— Dave Matthews

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. ↗