#failure

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. ↗

— George Cukor

#any #failure #successes #unless #you

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ↗

— Colin R. Davis

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! ↗

— Doug Larson

#friend #overlooks #success #tolerates #true

Nothing fails like failure. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#failure #like #nothing

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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