Failure Quote by David Foster Wallace

Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction,…

— David Foster Wallace

“And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Fear plays the role of antagonist in the story of your life”

— Anne Jackson

“I am afraid of falling, of fire, of torture and monsters and infestations of spiders and wild dogs and cancer and the End of…

— Nick Harkaway

“Fears loom up, but seem to be smaller as you dive more into life. More emotions, once repressed, well up, startling you with their…

— Padma Aon Prakasha

“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,…

— Yann Martel

“The features of character are carved out of adversity.”

— Rick Barnett

“One of life’s greatest ironies is that we try so much to avoid the challenges and pitfalls, only to realize these are the very…

— Tim Young

“Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts— so what? ”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“As it so often does, an impulsive, daring suddenly - and too late - seemed seriously flawed in its conception and its inability to…

— Jean Ferris

“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed…

— Aldous Huxley