3,580 Quotes About Failure

What does a person do when life crushes them? Is it absurd to want a different life? Alternatively, are personal dreams the only facet of life that we exclusively possess that can sustain us in time of distress?

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising."[The Writer's Digest Interview: Stephen King & Jerry B. Jenkins (Jessica Strawser, Writer's Digest, May/June 2009)]

Nobody is stopping you from using things such as your ability to read or hear as your definition of ‘success’ or ‘wealth’.

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

Success is the best attractive make up.

Try again; you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

Nat and I are entrepreneurs. It’s been feast of famine over the years. One of the greatest blessings in our lives is that when times get tough, we are willing to do the hard and necessary…even if that means digging out cans from the trash can at the park to recycle them for money and use the change to get gas to drive into town to buy groceries (true story).