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Quote by Samuel Smiles
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they m

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. – Samuel Smiles

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Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. – Samuel Smiles

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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. – Samuel Smiles

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles

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And in reality, I dont think its a real documentary. Its more a story of her life. Its a story of survival. Its a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure. – Maximilian Schell

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What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. – Sonia Johnson

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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success. – Malcolm Mclaren

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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility. – Dale Dauten

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