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"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress." -
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Top 5 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
"Advertising is the life of trade."
"No man ever listened himself out of a job."
"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them."
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
Top 5 quotes from Failure
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
"The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end."
"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders."
"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed."
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