#failure

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ↗

— Fred Allen

#crop #days #each #failure #first

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. ↗

— James Allen

#doubt #failure #fear #who

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#envelope #eye #failure #feel #get

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. ↗

— Maude Adams

#failure #petty #success

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#experience #experiences #failure #just #make

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#climb #failures #finding #heaven #most

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

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#based #confidence #details #discipline #excitement

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. ↗

— John Dewey

#failures #his #instructive #learns #much