Failure Quote by John Quincy Adams

“Every day that I was a candidate for President, I knew that millions of people were counting on me, and I couldn’t bear the…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“I don't so much mind looking back on having lost the election, or having been denied a role in the play, or having had…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so…

— Shelby Foote

“realized I was inventing a new pastime: imagining the pain of past electoral losses.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“You disintegrated into the recriminations, the headlines, the pictures. You scattered yourself into proofs, warnings, suspicions, arrests. You rode out into the dark outrage…

— Jonathan Lee

“The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the…

— George Orwell

“My friends understood how painful it would be to sit on the platform and watch Donald Trump sworn in as our next Commander in…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“He tried not to think what he knew--that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness…

— John Steinbeck

“There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it…

— Douglas Kennedy

“...he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation…

— Edith Wharton

“The demise of the human race rests mainly on the shoulders of stupidity, and the abuse of power in the hands of those we…

— A.R. Merrydew

“The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.…

— May Sarton