Failure
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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
On People Management (1984)
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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