#failure

There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments, but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#failure #rejection #writing #disappointment

Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts. ↗

— Rodolfo Costa

#fear-of-failure #opinion #self-confidence #self-doubt #self-confidence

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#alternative #come #course #detour #every

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#discoveries #failures #important #me #most

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #both #failure #fatal #good

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#addressed #classic #collective #democracy #energy

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ↗

— George Eliot

#called #enough #failure #good #grander

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. ↗

— George Eliot

#behind #best #failure #fear #i

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#each #failure #key #key to success #mistake

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#american #automation #basic #because #care