You can make mistakes, but you're not a failure until you start blaming others for those mistakes.

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"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

Success

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

Hard Work

"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own personal interests for the good of the team."

- John Wooden

Leadership

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

Leadership

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

- John Wooden

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"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

Failure

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."

- Thomas Edison

Failure

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

Failure

"Trying is the first step toward failure."

- Homer Simpson

Failure

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

Failure