#failure

Success doesn't come to you; you go to it. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#failure #inspirational #intention #persistence #positive-thinking

The phoenix must burn to emerge. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#failure #rebirth #death

Ne treba čovjek da se pretvori u svoju suprotnost. Sve što u njemu vrijedi, to je ranjivo. Možda nije lako živjeti na svijetu, ali ako mislimo da nam ovdje nije mjesto, biće još gore. A željeti snagu i bezosjećajnost, znači svetiti se sebi zbog razočarenja. I onda, to nije izlaz, to je dizanje ruku od svega što čovjek može da bude. Odricanje svih obzira je prastari strah, davna suština ljudskog bića koje želi moć, jer se boji. ↗

— Meša Selimović

#fear-of-living #identity-crisis #death

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. ↗

— George Orwell

#die #doom #failure #human #death

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#failure #learning #life #dreams

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible. ↗

— William Faulkner

#failure #dreams

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement." [Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech] ↗

— John Steinbeck

#exposure #failures #faults #improvement #writers

For a lack of education, a child's future may hold no fortune. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#children #college #education #fail #failures

Love provides the only forum where success and failure are equally embraced. (from the book "Your Ex-Boyfriend Will Hate") ↗

— Blue Sullivan

#love #success #wisdom #wisdom-inspirational #equality

To make the fastest progress, Be an absolutely cheerful Hero-warrior And take both victory and failure As parallel experience rivers Leading to the sea Of progress-delight. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#failure #hero-warrior #progress #victory-defeat #experience