Failure Quote by Richard Wright Download Open image ““He had been defeated by that which he had sought to destroy.”” — Richard Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failure
“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“(He) may have won a battle, but he was about to lose the war.” — Linda Rodríguez McRobbie Copy Share Image
“Defeat is a momentary thing. A defeat doesn't last. We were defeated and now we attack. Defeat means nothing. Can't you understand that? Do… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He who would so win it destroys it; he who would hold it in his grasp loses it.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“and he felt that, just as he had conquered this place, he could conquer the world.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The object of battle was the destruction of the enemy’s capacity to resist.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“I have destroyed him with the weapons I abhorred, and they are his. We have crossed each other's frotiers, we are the no-men of… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Color hate defined the place of black life as below that of white life; and the black man, responding to the same dreams as… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of… — Richard Wright 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
