#failure

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#assertion #chief #coming #does #failed

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ↗

— William Feather

#enjoying #enjoying life #failure #man #who

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. ↗

— Bob Feller

#baseball #behind #build #day #every

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ↗

— Truman Capote

#flavor #gives #success

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#alone #comes #failure #happen #people

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#bill #black #cities #civil #civil rights

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#attitude #basically #been #course #failed

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#failure #get #go #got #had

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#i #other #running #than #towards