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    often come after our greatest disappointments" (Henry Ward Beecher). Are failure comes from are non understanding of how things are going to work out,but not giveing effort to your goal. I have failed on so many in my career class, but I work hard to succeed in the class. Sometimes you have to fail to succeed. After people fail they feel bad , then they feel much better when they succeed."Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly

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    How to succeed at school? How can I be better than others? I was asking myself when I was at school. I did my high school in my country, Cameroon.It is one of the best school of my city. At the beginning, it was very difficult for me, my grades were bad and I thought I was not going to succeed.My parents used to beat me because of bad grades.My mother , who was a teacher , played an important role in that step of my studies. She talked to me a lot and gave me advices. I finally found that without

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    anything. Mistakes should be looked at as results or outcomes. How should you look at mistakes? Well you shouldn't look at them as permanent. You should look at them as progression to getting to the result you wanted. Learn not to limit yourself. Do not miss out on doing something because you're afraid of making a mistake. You cannot be afraid of failing or you will never succeed. This is valuable because many people will not be successful in life as they want to be, if they think they are always going

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    something in life. Whether it be tests, projects, sports, or closing a business deal, everyone will experience crippling failure at some point in their life. Depending on how hard the fall is, getting back up from a fail in anything can be a bit arduous. According to the article In Defense of Failure, “America allows room for its citizens to fail - and if they don’t succeed, to try and try again” (Megan Ardle). This shows that when we permit anyone to make room for failure, we gain insight on how to make

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    discusses the various theories of how many people had succeeded in life and their careers. Most of these theories lineup together or falls hand-in-hand with one another; especially race, the skin color of these people have a lot to do with their success. Receiving opportunities are very essential to success, as well as being born at the right time, and how you are raised can all impact how we will succeed in our lives. Many of the most successful people say to be able to succeed all you need is merit and

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    Life is like a piano. Life is like a piano. The white keys are the times you win or succeed. The black keys are the moments where you fail or think that you fail. But failing is not bad. Only a combination of the white keys and the black keys gives you a wonderful and interesting piece of music. A life of difficulties with happiness and sadness gives you a meaningful and happy life. A life with only winning does not exist. Only if you fail, can you feel the feeling of success. Michael Jordan once

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    struggles they face every day. The students are asked questions about their family and their opinions on life. Carter shadows them from time to time to experience what they do to get a better understanding of their life and struggles. Based on the research of Carter, African American and Latino youth struggle to achieve the “American dream”. Carter used the phrase “acting white” to express how the African American and Latino students, in her study, view other students who act and dress outside their

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    reasons contribute to why success is achieved or not. If a person does not succeed, they may automatically blame themselves because of their level of strength. Others may blame themselves for not having enough knowledge about what they are trying to succeed at. The real reason that people may not succeed, however, is their low level of will, determination, and happiness. Both knowledge and strength combine to help a person succeed because of the will and determination that

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    Believing in self or self-trust could save someone’s life and lead life into the right direction toward success. It did in “Pursuit of Happyness” where Mr. Gardner was losing control over his life until he trusted himself. Then his life started to turn around and when he believed in himself, everyone else believed in him and he succeed. Losing something of value can cause pain but when self-trust is lost, there is not much to do when you don’t have self-trust. When self-trust is present, believing

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    Have you ever sacrificed something valuable in order to succeed? If so than you can probably relate to the stories of Annie John and Captain Keeny. In the story “A walk to the Jetty”, Annie John lived on the small island of Antigua, and dreamed every day of leaving. The opportunity finally came when she got the chance to become a nurse in England. She then faced the fact that she would need to sacrifice a lot in order to succeed; she needed to leave her family and all that she ever knew. The story

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