The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- Topic: Action, Adversity, Mistakes
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
