Quote by Sam Donaldson
I dont know many people, if any, who have had some straight line t

I dont know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, theyve got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure. – Sam Donaldson

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And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mothers push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education. – Sam Donaldson

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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you cant just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that its much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers. – Sam Donaldson

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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. – Edward Dowden

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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. – Karen Armstrong

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Failure is authentic, and because its authentic, its real and genuine, and because of that, its a pure state of being. – Doug Coupland

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There is no failure. Only feedback. – Robert Allen

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