#failure

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#birth-rate #family #socioeconomic-failure #socioeconomics #standard-of-living

People don't fail; they just stop trying. ↗

— Bud Boyd

#life #success #trying #life

One failure is worth seven and a half successes. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

#half #seven #successes #worth

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#failure #haven #just #mean #means

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#lessons #mistakes #only

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces. ↗

— Bill Walton

#better #better person #failures #i #i can

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#failure #age

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. ↗

— Garth Stein

#creators #destiny #failures #ignorance #intention

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you ↗

— Ginnetta Correli

#failure #life #suffering #writing #art

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#creativity #failure #fantasy #impossible #writers