It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble.
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Oprah WinfreyHarvard University commencement address (2013)
About Oprah Winfrey
Talk show host, media executive and philanthropist. (b. 1954)
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- There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.Harvard University commencement address (2013)
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- Small steps lead to big accomplishments.Colorado College commencement address (2019)
- Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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- Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Oscar Wilde
- The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway
- But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.Ernest Hemingway
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