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It ofttimes requires heroic courage to face fruitless effort, to take up the broken strands of a life-work, to look bravely toward the future, and proceed undaunted on our way.
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But what, to our eyes, may seem hopeless failure is often but the dawning of a greater success.
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Failure is often the rock-bottom foundation of real success.
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Failure is often the turning-point, the pivot of circumstance that swings us to higher levels.
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High ideals, noble efforts will make seeming failures but trifles, they need not dishearten us; they should prove sources of new strength.
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Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.
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Life is not really what comes to us, but what we get from it.
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Many of our failures sweep us to greater heights of success, than we ever hoped for in our wildest dreams.
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But the true competition is the competition of the individual with himself,--his present seeking to excel his past.
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If we seek ever to surpass ourselves, we are moving on a uniform line of progress, that gives a harmonious unifying to our growth in all its parts.
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Life is but a succession of opportunities. They are for good or evil,--as we make them.
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Man can develop his self-reliance by seeking constantly to surpass himself.
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Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them.
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To him, defeat is no more than passing through a tunnel is to a traveller,--he knows he must emerge again into the sunlight.