#failure

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#creativity #fear-of-failure #life

When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel. ↗

— Eloise Ristad

#eloise-ristad #failure #life #success #life

I must admit that you fascinate me, Superior. Your life would seem to be entirely unbearable. And yet you fight so very, very hard to stay alive. With every weapon and stratagem. You simply refuse to die.” “I am ready to die.” Glokta returned his gaze, like for like. “But I refuse to lose.” ~Bayaz and Glokta ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#inspirational

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!) ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#perserverance #success #writing-life #life

The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard. ↗

— A.G. Street

#life

Failure is the sourness that makes success All the more sweeter. ↗

— Joshua Wisenbaker

#life #success #life

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. ↗

— Erik Erikson

#child #children #failure #hateful #his

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble. ↗

— Elyse Fitzpatrick

#grace #love

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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