#lure

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#discouragement #failure #goals #optimism #pessimism

My past is everything I failed to be. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#past #self #time #past

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#failure

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 #narrowmindedness #reading #self-deception #self-limiting-beliefs

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#bored #does #else #failures #i

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#perseverance #failure

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#failure

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence. ↗

— George Eliot

#failure

Giving up is the only sure way to fail. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#perseverance #failure

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#failure