Failure

Oscar leaned in, eyes wide. 'He's keeping me,' he whispered to the kitten.Pebble chirped. Oscar's eyes flicked to the books underneath his bed. They called out to him: Misfit. Orphan. Idiot.Oscar coughed and shifted his eyes back to Pebble. 'He thinks I can work the shop. ... He said he knew I could do it.'Wolf: He didn't see you work the shop. He doesn't know. Just wait until he hears.'He wants me to do the best I can.'Wolf: If only he knew how bad that was. He'll know soon.Oscar clenched his hands into fists and squeezed his eyes shut. ... 'I'm not going to disappoint him,' Oscar said. He repeated himself once more, in case the words themselves had any power. 'I'm not.

- Anne Ursu, The Real Boy

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

- Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart, because in this way we can solve our own problems as well as those of others, and we can make our human life meaningful.

- Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA

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!

- Charles Baudelaire

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

- Ian Hunter

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

- Earl Warren

Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!

- Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

You receive the gift of time freely and equally every day, beautifully wrapped in twenty-four new hours to invest in whatever you want, and how you use each hour decides your success or the lack of it

- Mensah Oteh, Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused

The key to success is having no qualms about failure.

- Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

You WILL eventually become what you think. Whether you succeed or fail is determined in your mind long before we see it play out in real-time.

- Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass