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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

— Ethel Barrymore

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

— Junot Diaz

Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

— LZ Granderson

For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.

— Alan Alda

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

— Hun Sen

I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.

— Lee Daniels

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

— Mao Zedong

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

— Cesar Chavez

I don't feel like what I've done are 'accomplishments.'

— Stefanie Powers

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.

— Mindy Kaling

✗Opposing Perspectives

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

— Leonardo da Vinci