I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of…

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

— Iris Murdoch

A man is not a failure when he is defeated. He fails when he give up and quit trying.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The moment you start losing self-confidence is the moment you accept failure and to be defeated.

— Bernard Tokonya

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I don't want my children to feel the same sense of failure I did growing up because they're not good at passing tests.

— Ben Fogle

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.

— Oswald Chambers

She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale…

— Edith Wharton

“What made his face burn was a sense of failure, the yearning for freedom that remained unfulfilled and the acute realisation that he didn't…

— Park Wansuh

Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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…

— Sting

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them…

— Donna Tartt

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Got to say, dying would really wreck my best day. Been there, done that, and now that I think about it, Artemis forgot to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon