"To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down."

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Source : "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

John Ashcroft

#Quitting Quotes #Embarrassing Quotes #Knocked Down Quotes

“With MOOCs, “the real question becomes, where is human intervention important?”
“You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.”
“The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.”
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases,”
“I know now that having regular checkups and mammograms are key to a healthy lifestyle.”
“How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?”
“Be successful not just in what you do, but in who you are.”

Source : Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker (2014). “Developing Your Core”, p.44, NavPress
“In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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