Pastoral Resources

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Nothing fails like failure.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Translation is the art of failure.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.