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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
 
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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
 
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.



It's a Wonderful Life:
 
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
 
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
 
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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
 
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
 
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Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. (adapted)
 
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Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.
 
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If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
 
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A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
 
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I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succe
 
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
 
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Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
 
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I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.
 
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