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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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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. ↗

— Ross Perot

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Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures. ↗

— Don Johnson

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Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction. ↗

— Wayne White

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But understand that the reason it is so difficult to extend forgiveness to those who have failed us is because we are unable to receive forgiveness for our own failures. ↗

— Emily P. Freeman

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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. ↗

— Sivananda

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As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes. ↗

— Robert Greene

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