"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."
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failure Quotes
"THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow."
"Failure are given power, not success .."
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
"The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye."
"If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song."
"I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success."
"Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction."
"But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism."
"Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success."
"The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success."
"It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure."
"A farm is a business, and I ran mine into the ground. The next year it grew back."
"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."
"For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs infull view."
"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal."
"Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success."
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
"There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell."
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."