#failure

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#clergy #failure #religion #life

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#politics #war #failure

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#failure #irony #optimism #failure

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#hope #failure

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#failure

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita #blake #hunter #jacob #vampire

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best. ↗

— Maude Adams

#day #do your best #endeavor #every #every day

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. ↗

— Scott Adams

#because #becoming #cartoonist #executive #failed

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen. ↗

— Keren Ann

#bound #even #experiences #failures #happen

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#apparent failure #dazzling #failure #islam #mohammed