#fail

College has given me the confidence I need to fail.
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— Jarod Kintz

#confidence #fail #failure #college

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#energy

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#failure #life #death

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#recovery #recovery

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#denial #facing #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. (...) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France. ↗

— David Millar

#death #doping #failure #inspirational #life

There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it. ↗

— Benjamin Bayani

#life #mistakes #life

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken ↗

— Agatha Christie

#failure #failures #goals #heartbreak #rejection

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry. ↗

— Rodney Alexander

#among #because #been #endorse #failure

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#fail #lives #men #men and women #organizations