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Failures Quotes (page 21)

One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in the remembrance: 'Well, Tom Sawyer he licked me once.' But that bid for glory was a failure. Most of the boys could say that, and so that cheapened the distinction too much." ~From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Scene where the neighbor boys were lamenting over Tom's apparent drowning. Mark Twain
Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary. Norman Vincent Peale
By taking risks, by risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end. Paulo Coelho
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it. J. K. Rowling
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. Oscar Wilde
The book borrowe? proves himself to be an in venerate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasure? as by his failure to read these books. Walter Benjamin
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and... Ernest Hemingway
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring. Alfred Adler
Paul Newman quote: "I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a..."
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown. Paul Newman
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our..."
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. Jean-Paul Sartre
Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the dbris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering. Nathanael West
It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own. Paulo Coelho
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Nora Roberts quote: "Once you considered failure you were one step farther away..."
Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success. Nora Roberts
Marlon Brando quote: "Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as..."
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings. Marlon Brando

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