Quotes About Failure by Alicia Duell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb Reflections on a very human topic. en-us 2018-02-19 19:26:42 UTC 2026-03-25 08:46:28 UTC hello@padlet.com aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233034388 “What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction”
― Oprah Winfrey]]> 2018-02-19 19:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233034388 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233034565 “Things to worry about:

Worry about courage
Worry about cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship

Things not to worry about:

Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing up
Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you
Don’t worry about triumph
Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
Don’t worry about mosquitoes
Don’t worry about flies
Don’t worry about insects in general
Don’t worry about parents
Don’t worry about boys
Don’t worry about disappointments
Don’t worry about pleasures
Don’t worry about satisfactions

Things to think about:

What am I really aiming at?
How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:

(a) Scholarship
(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them?
(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it?

With dearest love,

Daddy”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

]]> 2018-02-19 19:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233034565 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233034903 “Don’t be afraid to make difficult decisions, the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are usually the ones that do.”
― George Ilian, Steve Jobs: 50 Life and Business Lessons from Steve Jobs]]> 2018-02-19 19:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233034903 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233035073
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman]]> 2018-02-19 19:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233035073 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233035731 The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them — especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are. … The trick is to take advantage of the particular details of the mess you’ve made, so that your next attempt will be informed by it and not just another blind stab in the dark
-- Daniel Dennett]]> 2018-02-19 19:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233035731 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233035961 If You’re Not Making Mistakes, You’re Not Taking Enough Risks
-- Debbie Millman
]]> 2018-02-19 19:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233035961 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233036164 “I err, therefore I am.”
― Augustine of Hippo]]> 2018-02-19 19:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233036164 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233036874 “What does not kill you will make you stronger.”
― Nietzche]]> 2018-02-19 19:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233036874 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233037034 “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy]]> 2018-02-19 19:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233037034 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233037168 “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus]]> 2018-02-19 19:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233037168 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233037320 “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning]]> 2018-02-19 19:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233037320 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233037815 “Let me fall if I must. The one I become will catch me."
― Baal Shem Tov]]> 2018-02-19 19:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233037815 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233038194 “In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
― John Churton Collins]]> 2018-02-19 19:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233038194 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233038400 “Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning”
― Viktor E. Frankl]]> 2018-02-19 19:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233038400 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233038509 “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller]]> 2018-02-19 19:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233038509 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233038877 “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
― Seneca]]> 2018-02-19 19:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233038877 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233039026 “You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable]]> 2018-02-19 19:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233039026 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233039157 “That’s true to life.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or
reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on
thinking about the fact that you suffer.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed]]> 2018-02-19 19:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233039157 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233039361 “Failure IS an option here.”
― Elon Musk]]> 2018-02-19 19:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233039361 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233039542 “Comparison is the thief of joy.”
― Theodore Roosevelt]]> 2018-02-19 19:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/233039542 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/234552593
"Get acquainted with your former self. Compare your current accomplishments to your past expectations. And for a few minutes, before you’re jolted back to the present, you’ll feel contented. Maybe even proud.”
--Adam Grant
]]> 2018-02-23 01:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/234552593 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/235043217 The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
--Ulysses S. Grant]]> 2018-02-25 02:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/235043217 aliciaduell https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/356877958 "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
-- J. K. Rowling]]> 2019-05-05 00:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/aliciaduell/w1068dxk2seb/wish/356877958