Fortune In Failing Quotes & Sayings

If you left out the sadistic serial killer part of him, he was a great guy. He was clean and orderly. He was kind. He catered to the woman he loved. He was a great cook. He had high hopes for his career. He didn't plop down in front of the television for hours at a time. He enjoyed playing games and great conversation. His sexual stamina was impressive. And he was a handsome man. It's just that pesky habit of his where he raped, tortured, killed, and dismembered women that was a turn off. — Kimberly A. Bettes

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. — Holbrook Jackson

Failing at everything except his fear of success. Passed over yet again. Archivist of slights. Everyone else's good fortune is food out of your mouth or a hug you never got from someone who should have loved you better. Halfway through lunch she realized glass ceilings allow glimpses up into another person's hell. — Colson Whitehead

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it. — Ogwo David Emenike

Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals. — Ogwo David Emenike

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure. — Ogwo David Emenike

Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie. — Kevin Costner

The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true. — Agona Apell

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read. — Nell Freudenberger

As long as a certain problem primarily affects a different country, in this case Italy, one might not put it at the very top of one's list of priorities. — Paolo Gentiloni

Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it. — Ogwo David Emenike

That failure serves a purpose! — Ogwo David Emenike

Sooner or later, the man who learnt lessons from his failures will be the one to be sought first for guidance, counsel and formula on how to be successful in life's endeavours. — Ogwo David Emenike

The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast. — Dion Fortune

The book is the precious material expression of a past emotion, or the chance of having one in years to come, and to get rid of it would bring the risk of a serious sense of loss. (p. 28) — Jacques Bonnet

Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof. — Ogwo David Emenike

Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better. — Ogwo David Emenike

It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct. — Norm MacDonald