How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

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"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

Perseverance

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

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"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

- Benjamin Franklin

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"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

Learning from Mistakes

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

- Benjamin Franklin

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

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"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

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"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

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