“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
""It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.""
- William Faulkner
Balance
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
- William Faulkner
Courage
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
- William Faulkner
Courage
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the Earth."
- William Faulkner
Courage
"Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief."
- William Faulkner
Courage
"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."
Failure
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."
- Arianna Huffington
Failure
"Trying is the first step toward failure."
- Homer Simpson
Failure
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
- Truman Capote
Failure