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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
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No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.
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There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose, even though the attempt should not be crowned with eventual success.
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If a man stumbles, it is a good thing to help him to his feet. Every one of us needs a helping hand now and then.
Theodore Rooseveltverified·Citizenship in a Republic, in African and European Addresses·April 23, 1910
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edisondisputed·Edison: His Life and Inventions, by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin·1910
Attribution contested
The famous form -- I have not failed, I have just found ten thousand ways that won't work -- has no source in Edison. The earliest record of the remark is this one, in the authorised 1910 biography, and it is a colleague's recollection of a conversation, not Edison writing. Note what changes in the retelling: several thousand becomes ten thousand, and a man cheerfully counting negative results becomes a man defending himself against failure.
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There is no short cut to the making of these ideals into glad realities.
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A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today.
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Better late than never.
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If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope.
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Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core.
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If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.
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Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform you still end up as a sugar cookie. It’s just the way life is sometimes.
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Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.
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Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.