Quotes of Downfall - somelinesforyou

“ Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. ”

- Mary Pickford

“ You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ''Failure'' is not the falling down, but the staying down. ”

- Mary Pickford

“ We are all failures — at least, all the best of us are. ”

- Sir James M. Barrie

“ Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. ”

- Henry Ross Perot

“ If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. ”

- Mary Pickford

“ It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin. ”

- Unknown

“ When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. ”

- Katherine Mansfield

“ Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer.Tyler never knew his father.Maybe self-destruction was the answer. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ We moralize among ruins. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others. ”

- Unknown

“ Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others. ”

- Unknown

“ We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes. ”

- Randal Keith Milholland

“ Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it. ”

- Mary Pickford

“ You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. ”

- Edwin Louis Cole

“ Failures are like skinned knees — painful, but superficial. ”

- Henry Ross Perot

“ Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. ”

- Lao tzu

“ The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account. ”

- Richard R. Grant

“ Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. ”

- Samuel Beckett

“ In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ”

- G.K. Chesterton

“ There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ Passion is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others. ”

- Juvenal

“ Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The entire world, the much-praised European civilization, is falling into ruins through the anarchy which has been let loose by the world war. ”

- Karl Liebknecht

“ There is always time for failure. ”

- John Mortimer

“ There is always another chance... This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down. ”

- Mary Pickford
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