“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” ~Charles Horton Cooley
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” ~Ray Bradbury
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery” ~James Joyce
“Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.” ~Jon Sinclair
“To try and fail is at least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the loss of what might have been.” ~Benjamin Franklin
“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” ~John Burroughs
“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” ~Charlie Chaplin
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” ~Ernest Hemingway
Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” ~Jim Henson
“It’s better to fail in originality, than succeed in imitation.” ~Herman Melville
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” ~Augusten Burroughs
“Life isn’t fair, it’s just fairer than death, that’s all.” ~William Goldman
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” ~Lao Tzu
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ~Douglas Adams
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” ~Vincent van Gogh
Do not fear mistakes—there are none.” ~Miles Davis
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~Khalil Gibran
“Fail, fail again, fail better” ~Samuel Beckett
