All Quotes By Tag: Failure

“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It’s misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm”

“When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn’t give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.”

“As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try.”

“Failure isn’t bad if it doesn’t attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn’t go to the head.”

“People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it’s not. Failure is part of the process of success.”

“I’d rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.”

“The problem is us. We don’t look up to people who have made it in life to inspire us. Wanting to know how they made it. Instead, we look down to people who have failed in trying to make it. That we don’t want to start or try for ourselves because we don’t want to end up like them.”

“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.”[The Writer’s Digest Interview: Stephen King & Jerry B. Jenkins (Jessica Strawser, Writer’s Digest, May/June 2009)]”

“It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.”

“A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”

“Every failure makes me to work twice as hard than me giving up.”

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

“Failure has its successes.”

“No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they’re hot.”

“Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way.”