Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Sometimes choosing to leave a mistake on a track is way cooler than going back and nailing it. — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
“Paying twenty-five dollars for me was your mistake, ma’am. I’m not worth more than fifteen.” — Margaret Brownley Copy Share Image
If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“About last night…” For some reason, I held out for the miracle of her saying she didn’t regret it. “It was a… — Stella Rhys Copy Share Image
“Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll… — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
I've failed a lot, you know, in football, and I've gone on a lot of auditions, been told no, been told I'm… — John David Washington Copy Share Image
“This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would… — John Grant Copy Share Image
“He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing… — Raymond Weaver Copy Share Image
“The role of the press in the civil rights movement also points to our larger failure as a nation to validate and… — Wesley Lowery Copy Share Image
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S.… — Dahr Jamail Copy Share Image
Just because you cry doesn't mean you are weak, it's one way your heart expresses itself through your eyes. Just because you… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
I never make the same mistake twice. I make it 5 or 6 times, just to be sure!.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Football is the only industry I know that builds in failure as part of its fibre. — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
“History repeats itself and mine is full of failures, so I am not surprised.” — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Planning is the key to success, course he who fails to plan has actually plan to fail” — David Ibeyeomie Copy Share Image
Fear is natural. Failure is normal. But Fear of Failure is a choice. — Collins Hasty Copy Share Image
The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens by mistake the universe has a divine plan...Stay attuned to it.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.” — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
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