#lure

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#failures #least #us

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure. ↗

— John Haggai

#doomed #failure #god #impossible #something

How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this is what Einstein meant when he looked me in the eye that day and said, I would be nothing without you. It was not success he saw written in my face. He saw, rather, that I would never accomplish anything at all. ↗

— Rana Dasgupta

#failure #genius #ordinariness #success #men

When my now ex wife said she wanted a separation, I was horrified. So I said, “You want me to wear a condom?!”
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— Jarod Kintz

#failure #false-conclusion #horrified #horror #mistake

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#gospel

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#course #destructive #even #failure #inaction

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#deal #does #failure #how #only

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#appalling #failure #majority #measure #record

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. ↗

— Jack Lemmon

#fear #seldom #stops #you

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#declined #equally #failure #glad #office