Believe Quote by Alice Foote MacDougall

“I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.” quote by Alice Foote MacDougall — Download Open image

“I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.”

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Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

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When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.

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... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt…

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