#fail

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bear #being #certain #convinced #doubts

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#american #american politics #condition #country #failed

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#after #failure #father #president #states

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#dead-end street #detour #failure #street

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure. ↗

— Arthur C. Danto

#him #his #impossible #like #really

Failure too is a form of death. ↗

— Graham Greene

#failure #form #too

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#fail #pop #pop culture #wants #you

Back then we gave it our all, we neither lied nor made mistakes, we didn't fail and didn't do anything wrong. It's just that...TIME has passed and changed it all. ↗

— Yuuki Obata

#friendship #lies #life #mistakes #relationship

That failure serves a purpose! ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #the-fortune-in-failing #inspirational