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By: Recommended reading for writers – March 2009 « Write for Your Life

Recommended reading for writers – March 2009 « Write for Your Life — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:35:03 +0000

[...] 10 Inspirational Quotes To Overcome Failure | Welsh Scribe I’m a sucker for quotes when the inspiration well has run dry of, erm, inspiration. Some quotes on failure for you to plunder. Like a pirate. [...]

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:14:21 +0000

Thanks for sharing Shawn. I like that last one about a thunderstorm.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:26:09 +0000

How about:

To eat an egg, you must break the shell. -Jamaican Proverb

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -Andre Gide

Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air. -Johann Schiller

I got a million….
Shawn´s last blog ..Book Review Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

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Recommended reading for writers - March 2009 | Write for Your Life — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:33:32 +0000

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:02:57 +0000

@Adam Thanks Adam, I wasn’t aware of Randy’s work. I found his quote through a Google search but the site didn’t link his name to anything.

I totally agree with what you are saying. Failure has too much negative connotation and it’s time to change our perception of the word.

@Lisa Ahh how could I forget the “If at first you don’t succeed…” quote! Thank you!

@Mel that is a great way of looking at it, definitely less bite in feedback than in faillure.

@Janice Thought you’d like them and I just knew you’d have a great one to add. Thanks for continuing to share your wisdom with us.

By: Janice

Janice — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:59:41 +0000

Great quotes, Marc! With my up and down life, I’ve got a whole section on ‘failure’ in my quotebooks and a category called ’success and failure’ in my archives too! My best writing has often resulted from what I thought at the time were painful ‘failures’. Failure and success are just shadows and sunlight. Here’s one for your collection:

“So long as we love, we serve. So long as we are loved by others, I would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless when he has a friend.” ~Robert Louis Stephenson

By: Melinda

Melinda — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:18:04 +0000

I remember being told "There is no failure, there is only Feedback" I like that, it takes the sting out of something that doesn't work and retains the lesson within. Melinda’s last blog post..Business Practices that Make you Look Bad

By: LisaNewton

LisaNewton — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:46:50 +0000

I love the quotes. I always try to learn from my failures. Try, try, and try again. LisaNewton’s last blog post..Chris Brogan, the So Cal Action Sports Network, and the evening that almost was

By: Adam Di Stefano - 52 Short Stories

Adam Di Stefano - 52 Short Stories — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:33:55 +0000

Hi Marc - I really enjoyed these quotes, and I liked that one of them was from Randy Milholland. I think the only way to deal with failure is really to embrace it, and remove the negative connotation from the word. Every failure is a learning experience. I'm a big believer that you need to fail a lot before you succeed, and that success lasts quite a bit longer than failure. It's worth failing a lot in order to succeed a little. Adam Di Stefano - 52 Short Stories’s last blog post..Writing While Traveling