#lure

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#courage #failure #his #king #lost

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#did #failures #get #him #his

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

#been #book #different #every #failure

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. ↗

— Yann Martel

#failure #i #i think #life #my life

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#al #destroy #economy #failure #fear

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. ↗

— John Mayer

#become #defined #failure #guitarist #hendrix

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. ↗

— John McCarthy

#advance #blame #countries #course #failure

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#failures #sanctuary #your

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#devastating #difficult #fact #failure #marriage

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#america #because #car #doomed #failure