Emil Cioran Quotes

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

Emil Cioran

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• I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Queen

• Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success...when you can wish good things for people and rejoice when they get it, so many gifts and blessings come to you that you can't even imagine.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Good
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• Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • Intellect

• People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Blame
  • Enemies

• If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Trying
  • May
  • Soul

• At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Failures
  • Pregnant

• I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Life
  • Small
  • Lost

• The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Excuse
  • Failures
  • Inaction

• My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Blessing
  • Failures

• 99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Excuses
  • Failures

• I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live."

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Life
  • Son
  • Mistakes

• Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Writing
  • Failures
  • Rewards

• Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Help
  • Artist
  • Rejection

• The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Failures
  • Scream
  • Arrangements

• The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Democracy
  • Belief
  • Crime

• We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the biblical illiteracy comes as a direct result of a failure to recognize that the DNA of western civilization comes from a biblical worldview.

  

  Hank Hanegraaff
  • Bible
  • Civilization
  • Result

• My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Way
  • Failures

• Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Congress
  • Failures
  • Political System

• You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.

  

  Trip Hawkins
  • Entrepreneur
  • Failures
  • Mistakes

• We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or the disastrous failures of those who later thought they were acting in his name.

  

  Allen W. Wood
  • Failures
  • Contribution
  • Marx

• Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Space
  • Wall
  • Wind

• Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Tears
  • Sacrifice
  • Charity

• Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Failures