#failure

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

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

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

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#discoveries #failures #important #me #most

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#act #break #command #face #fail

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dexter #dexter-morgan #failure #morgan #pessimism