I'm feeling contemplative today. That's what a setback could do to me. I was hopeful about something positive to develop this week, but the news I received this morning was otherwise. I know that such experiences are meant to teach us a lesson. We just have to be perceptive. Let's wax philosophical about FAILURES through the wise words of other great men:
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Edison
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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. -Robert Schuller
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Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There are defeats more triumphant than victories. -Michel de Montaigne
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You always pass failure on your way to success. -Mickey Rooney
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A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience. -Elbert Hubbard
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My reputation grows with every failure. -George Bernard Shaw
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The only real failure in life is the failure to try. -Sven Goran Eriksson
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Success builds character, failure reveals it. -Dave Checkett
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