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Quote by John Burroughs
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. – John Burroughs

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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. – John Burroughs

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs

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We cant have a failure in Iraq, but we also cant be there for the next 10 years because if we are, its going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself. – Dennis Ross

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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. – Jawaharlal Nehru

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Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. – Serj Tankian

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The point is not to take the worlds opinion as a guiding star but to go ones way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. – Gustav Mahler

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