“When I was a boy, that was all I wanted—to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I once tried to glue together with a bottle of Elmer’s; you should have seen your grandmother’s face. But I never got any higher than the backyard fence I’d launch from. I never got inside a cloud. Your raven did.”
Source: Undercover
“Failure is an opportunity to rise higher than before.”
Source: Power Branding Secrets: Spark Customer Interest and Ignite Your Sales
“Once you learn to celebrate your failures, you are on the way to becoming the real deal!”
Source: The Handbook To Affiliate Marketing by Harsh Agrawal: Your Fastest $1000 Online
“Falling into the folly of concentrating on a failure instead of its causes is to fall victim to yet another failure.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Never belittle love”
Source: Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny
“Ashoka's political and moral philosophy, as he expressed it in his imperial inscriptions, initiated a tradition of religious tolerance, non-violent debate and a commitment to the idea of happiness which has animated Indian political philosophy ever since. But - and it's a big but - his benevolent empire scarcely outlived him. And that leaves us with the uncomfortable question of whether such high ideals can survive the realities of political power. Nevertheless, this was a ruler who really did change the way that his subjects and their successors thought.”
Source: A History of the World in 100 Objects
“Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Failure of your first attempt does not mean you can't be a winner of great battles; it rather means, you must trigger only when your target is in focus.”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.”
Source: Big in Japan: A (Hungry) Ghost Story
“And of course, there is always the F for failure. F for failing falling festering failure. F for fault. F for forgotten.”
Source: Without Tess