Quotes Tagged "failing"

Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhappiness for having failed to find the one thing she wanted. For the first time she was a character in her own writing, and her frailties and mistakes were trapped on the page by the beauty and unsparing focus of her prose. Towards the end it was a battle to finish a page. The story was the story she had told herself for decades, deep within her own mind, and now as it grew, line by line, on the paper before her, she wrestled with each turn in the path all over again, as if it were still possible to change its course with the power of her words.

Failing is inevitable, but becoming a failure is a choice.

The only real failure is failing to learn from failure.

Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.

No stress. Just keep sticking it to failure until you give birth to success.

In life when pursuing my dreams I accept failing until I succeed.

Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Capitalism can no longer be viewed as a soaring success. And yet, the left wing and right wing are fighting, only accelerating their collective downfall.

To understand why my health was failing, I applied astronomical knowledge to my mind and body.

Charter schools in particular have proven a lifeline for millions of children stuck in chronically failing schools.

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.