Failure is nothing but dull success.

“The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.”

— Ian McEwan

The biggest failure in life is when we quit without knowing how close we were to the finish.

— Anonymous

Faliure in not falling down , it's not gitting up again

— Spido

“You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Never try to justify your failures based on your luck. You just didn’t work hard enough!”

— Mustafa Saifuddin

'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned…

— Samuel R. Delany

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

— Herbert Read

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

— Beth Moore

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

— Tom Robbins

I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity…

— Heidi Julavits

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm,…

— Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To…

— Joe Hill

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

— Clifton Fadiman

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

— Richard Dawkins