#failure

I had thought in those years, I suppose, having learned the lesson from my mother well, that it was foolish to ask for too much out of life, afterwards only to live in the wake of that expectation, an irreducible disappointment. But what pain, I thought now, could be greater than to realize that even the practical reality for which you had assumed to settle upon, did not hold – that even that was illusory? Would it not be better, then, to set your sights on some more fantastic and rare dream from which even in failing you might take some comfort in having once aspired? ↗

— Johanna Skibsrud

#dreams

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#cannot #discourage #ever #failures #had

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#decides #dispensable #elegance #factor #failure

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#concentrate #establish #failures #forget #lives

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. ↗

— John Burroughs

#blame #else #fail #failure #man

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. ↗

— John Burroughs

#blame #discouraged #else #failure #get

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure. ↗

— Brett Favre

#failure #feel #football #football player #i

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#cannot #difference #even #exact #failure

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. ↗

— George Canning

#failure #indecision #parents

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#balance #been #between #blessings #camp