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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

—Walt Whitman

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

—William Saroyan

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

—Unknown

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

—Unknown

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Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.

—Rudy Francisco

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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

—Earl Wilson

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One fails forward toward success.

—Charles Kettering

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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

—Charles Horton Cooley

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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

—Douglas Coupland in Life After God

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When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure—but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.

—Gretchen Rubin

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I believe only in art and failure.

—Jane Rule

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Every failure is a step to success.

—William Whewell

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I used to feel like I was on the top of the world. Then one day, I noticed that it felt like I was no longer on the top of the world. I was just floating around inside of it. And then eventually, it felt like the world was on top of me.

—Colleen Hoover in Without Merit

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Success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.

—Jill Shalvis in The Sweetest Thing

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Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone. They risked ridicule and failure and sometimes even death.

—Jen Sincero in You Are a Badass

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