The Fortune In Failing Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you — George R R Martin

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

A world without braves is a world without heroes, but a world without wisdom is a world of animals. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby. — Maxwell Maltz

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. — James Bryce

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

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

There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound. — Brooks Atkinson

That failure serves a purpose! — Ogwo David Emenike

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

I think it's important to see that, as an audience member, because a lot of times you pass judgement on people, right off the bat, depending on whatever they're involved in or the people they surround themselves with, or something like that. — Megalyn Echikunwoke

Film school was a privilege I could not afford. — Ava DuVernay

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

Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign — Alexandre Dumas

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

She and her friends would talk about their husbands like they were children, or pets - some strange species responsible for bad smells and strange noises and messes they'd have to clean up. — Jennifer Weiner

There are dog people and cat people. — Holly Black

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

I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone else. At the time, I used to do people like Tony Blair and William Hague. It was very good fun hearing people kind of thinking, 'Hmm, is that who I think it is?' — Will Tudor

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

The US government should not be in the business of discrimination. — Christine Gregoire

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before. — Cat Stevens

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

Quality is Job Number One — Ford Motor Company

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

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue. — Mark Millar

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