Failure Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failure Funny Inspirational Love
You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
“A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How… — Stephen Wright Copy Share Image
Abandon ship. Fend for yourself. Youve got that sinking feeling and nothing else. — The Swellers Copy Share Image
I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“When I told my parents that I was going to sea, they didn’t ask any questions and seemed to take it all for granted.… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger 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
