Failure Quote by Howard Jacobson Download Open image “I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.” — Howard Jacobson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failure Religion Spiritual Spiritual success Success Worldly
I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded. — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than useful items of equipment for me, like facility with languages or immunity to hepatitis. The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so… — Ted Simon Copy Share
The best part of success is that it got me past the basic survival level of existence so that I was comfortable. I didn't… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions. — Brandon Bays Copy Share Image
Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have. — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
It was clear in my mind that my belief in God, coupled with the desire to work hard to serve others, meant I was… — David Steward Copy Share Image
Life gave me a weird path to walk and it wasn't a very traditional path and that's good, I enjoyed it greatly. But I… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
No one has traveled the road of success without ever crossing the streets of failure. GOD never promised us an easy journey in life,but… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence… — Og Mandino Copy Share
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The novel is a thing of irony and ambiguity. That's at the heart of 'J', a world that has stopped arguing with itself. We… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
“Rhiannon's Law #28: If you're going to fuck up, be sure to fuck up good and proper. Nothing makes failure acceptable, so you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
