#fail

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. ↗

— George Orwell

#die #doom #failure #human #death

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#failure #poets #death

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures. ↗

— John Powell

#success #communication

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#failure #learning #life #dreams

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible. ↗

— William Faulkner

#failure #dreams

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement." [Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech] ↗

— John Steinbeck

#exposure #failures #faults #improvement #writers

For a lack of education, a child's future may hold no fortune. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#children #college #education #fail #failures

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#inspirational #equality

Love provides the only forum where success and failure are equally embraced. (from the book "Your Ex-Boyfriend Will Hate") ↗

— Blue Sullivan

#love #success #wisdom #wisdom-inspirational #equality

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#risks #success #equality