#failure

To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or temerarious and rushed unwisely in; and how every day and all day long we have transgressed the law of kindness; -it may seem a paradox, but in the bitterness of these discoveries, a certain consolation resides. Life is not designed to minister to a man's vanity. He goes upon his long business most of the time with a hanging head, and all the time like a blind child. Full of rewards and pleasures as it is - so that to see the day break or the moon rise, or to meet a friend, or to hear the dinner-call when he is hungry, fills him with surprising joys - this world is yet for him no abiding city. Friendships fall through, health fails, weariness assails him; year after year, he must thumb the hardly varying record of his own weakness and folly. It is a friendly process of detachment. When the time comes that he should go, there need be few illusions left about himself. Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: -surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#death #failure #business

NOTHING goes exactly as planned. Make your OWN destiny ↗

— Tate Hallaway

#failure #inspirational #life #plan #inspirational

Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#goals #inspirational #motivational #the-fortune-in-failing #inspirational

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. ↗

— Walter Pater

#alike #even #eye #failure #form

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. ↗

— Mary Pickford

#any #call #choose #down #failure

You always pass failure on your way to success. ↗

— Mickey Rooney

#failure #pass #success #way #you

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. ↗

— Rosalind Russell

#failure #funeral #private #public #success

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding. ↗

— Burt Rutan

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But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#failure #first #grandfathers #his #i

Love every version of yourself, they help create your own unique version of extraordinary. ↗

— Kaiden Blake

#inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #inspirational-success-failure #kaiden-blake