Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting…

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

— Edward Dowden

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

— Edward Dowden

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

— Cat Deeley

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something…

— Spike Jonze

“While I pressed the tissue to my face, Beck said, “Can I tell you something? There are a lot of empty boxes in your…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather. Here are…

— Stephen Fry

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going…

— Sylvia Plath

“When you cross a challenge that is expansive and deep, you may not even realize when you’ve come to the other side. That day…

— Teresa Hirst

“Have a Plan B, and maybe even a Plan C. Because unexpected changes are most difficult to handle when we don't have a backup.”

— Germany Kent

“The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your…

— Joanna Cannon

“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem , and how small they are ; how we think we…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.”

— Jonathan Harnisch

“The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works.”

— Erica Goros

“Once an individual shines bright walking in average light to some may appear as dim surroundings..”

— Victoria Addino

“Helen devises plans to become a monster herself.”

— Ekaterina Sedia