An optimist is someone who decides that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not failure—it’s salsa dancing! Who doesn’t love salsa dancing?

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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. — Herman Melville

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Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes. - Jim Rohn

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The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery. ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. —Colin R. Davis

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Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion. ― Conrad Hilton

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Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. — Angela Bassett

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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. – Arthur Ashe

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ― Maya Angelou

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