#failure

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#books #children #desire #failure #fear

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. ↗

— George Eliot

#best #failure #knows #life #only

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

#another #because #both #come #decided

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#failure #feel #life #more #over

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. ↗

— Herbert Kaufman

#coaches #courage #failure #habit #long

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. ↗

— Edward Eggleston

#end #failure #others #people #persistent

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#end #excuse #failure #itself #need

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#again #cable #career #failure #guy

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere. ↗

— Sting

#emote #failure #go #i #know

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#any #anyone #credit #done #failure