"Her failure was a useful preliminary to success." — Edith Wharton

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• Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from… — Karen Armstrong
• Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
• For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a… — Mary Kay Ash
• If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'… — Arthur Ashe
• Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius
• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
• Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result… — Paul Auster
• Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage
• Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get… — Jensen Ackles
• It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
• The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not… — Edward Bach
• People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't… — Michele Bachmann

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