#failure

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. ↗

— Holly Lisle

#education

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne. ↗

— Mark A. Rayner

#ashes #child #crush #death #fail

Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off, worthy to the last, weary of all the petty things in life, done to death by the heartless conduct of the only human beings that he had ever loved. ↗

— Émile Zola

#failure #honesty #death

Failure is not an end-point, but amendment to suit your success ↗

— Binye Vincent

#faith #freedom #hope #inspiration #motivational

Ce qui commence par : "Je me hâtais de déplaire exprès, par crainte de déplaire naturellement" (Mauriac) continue par : "Je me hâtais d'échouer exprès,par crainte d'échouer naturellement", et pourrait se terminer un jour par : "Je me hâtais de mourir exprès,par crainte de mourir naturellement" (une phrase d'excellent comique). ↗

— Julien Gracq

#failure #death

Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you’re due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings. ↗

— Donald Van de Mark

#ethics #inspirational #inspirational-success-failure #leadership #life-purpose

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction. ↗

— Wayne White

#failures #magnitude #nobody #our #part

Change doesn't come without invitation. You won't discover it in routine. And you won't create an all-new and better you if you wait for someone else to give you permission. Transformation begins - and ends - inside of you. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#change

Ciertas personas son malas únicamente por necesidad de hablar. Su palabra necesita mucho combustible y el combustible es el prójimo. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#misérables #victor-hugo #inspirational

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE) ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#culture #failure #progress #change