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    famous philosopher Marcus cicero “the greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.’’ If greater difficulty leads up to greater glory then how come people fail or give up when it comes to hard difficulty ? They don’t understand what the glory is once they accomplish that difficulty, so they fail. If they didn’t quit they’ll feel way different and feel how good it feels to accomplish the goal they were trying to succeed in. Once people go through a difficulty they have more knowledge once the…

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    In everyday media we hear about success all the time.Like how this person is so successful,how someone shouldn't be successful because they didnt do anything, and most importantly how to be successful.Laurence Shames wote a essay called “The Sweet Smell of Success Isn’t All That Sweet”.It is about there interpretation on how and what it means to be successful.They explain that to be successful is to challenge lifes ideas and to make great works of art.Laurence also says that its bad to think…

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    Failure, among many other challenges, is a struggle that most of us go through in our daily lives. For some of us, it is easier to correct our mistakes, but for others it is much harder to do so. Failure helps us realize our mistakes so that we can learn from them and better ourselves. It is something that many of us are afraid of, but it is something that we all must face at one point in life. For me, my transition form middle school to high school was very tough, especially since I was…

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    Winston Churchill once said “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Everyone goes through negative experiences in their lives and it is how they react to such failures that determines their character. Just like everyone else in the world, I have gone through my fair share of failures. One being that I was not accepted into my schools freshman mentoring program during my junior year. The freshman mentoring program consists of a group of…

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    this statement like Gawain; a strong yet struggling knight of the Round Table; Bedivere; a damsel but loyal knight of Arthur from the Arthurian Legend; & Max Kaine, a young becoming man & friend from the movie Freak the Mighty. Most of us know that failure is a reality of life; & at some level, we understand that it actually helps us grow. People grow in knowledge from past experiences (positive or negative). People shouldn’t let their past distract them from improving their future. Your…

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    lacrosse for the Villanova Wildcats travel team. I was about thirteen years old when I experienced one of my first significant lessons of failure. At a young age many do not understand the importance of failures and short comings, and how it is essential to learn, grow, and improve. We think success comes easy and without trial which is not realistic. My life changing failure taught me many things: the strength of teamwork, the power of preparation and will, and how to be a better competitor.…

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    Failing an academic course would be considered the biggest failure to many people, busting your lip by falling on the concrete because you failed to keep balance can be another one, but to me, failure is something much deeper. Something life changing, heart breaking, yet inspiring, is a failure. Failing my family is my biggest failure. It was the summer of 2012 I was just thirteen years old, my family’s condition was at its worst. The screams and cries constantly greeted me as I stepped foot…

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    “Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.” (John Ortberg) In her TedTalk about perseverance and grit, Angela Lee Duckworth made a similar statement to Ortberg’s saying, “...One characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. It wasn’t social intelligence, it wasn’t good looks, physical health, and it wasn’t IQ: It was grit.” Her statement meant that naturally smart, social, good-looking people are not necessarily going to be more successful in life than…

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    The first time in my 18 years on this earth that I can say that I really experienced failure was during my freshman year of high school when I tried out for the basketball team. I came into my freshman year of high school thinking I was very prepared for freshman basketball. I thought I was prepared because I had played aau basketball previously for multiple summers and had known and played multiple times against the guys I was competing with for a spot. Well I thought wrong because during the…

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    Og Mandino once said “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” This is not true. It is a great motivational statement,and it will work for some events. A Pre-Algebra SOL is a great example. You can study for months and you will ace it. But, say you were playing baseball and you said that you could hit a longer home run than Aaron Judge, one of the best home-run hitters in the league, while Luis Severino, star pitcher for the New York Yankees was pitching.…

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