#lure

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. ↗

— Richard Whately

#exempt #failures #makes #only #who

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#failure #last #refuge

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger. ↗

— Billy Dee Williams

#bad thing #builds #character #failure #makes

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#am #apparent #apparent failure #back #been

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#apparent #defense #democracy #failures #forces

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#aim high #alone #behave #best #capable

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#any #ask #failure #luck #matter

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? ↗

— Debra Winger

#actual experience #afraid #after #because #choice

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ↗

— John Wooden

#failure #fatal #might