Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

Diane Setterfield
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  2. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying. - Roy T. Bennett

  3. You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday. - Jason Mraz

  4. Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure–learn the lessons and adapt from it. - Roy T. Bennett

  5. The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying. - Roy T. Bennett

More Quotes By Diane Setterfield
  1. Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born.. Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out...

  2. All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more...

  3. I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

  4. ... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.

  5. A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

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