Quotes related to Proverbs 24:16
I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
— Joseph Brodsky
The bottom of the egg was weighted, so it wobbled slightly before standing perfectly upright—like a Weeble. (Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.)
— Ernest Cline
William Faulkner was once asked how he went about writing a book. His answer: "It's like building a chicken coop in a high wind. You grab any board or shingle flying by or loose on the ground and nail it down fast." Like becoming a pastor.
— Eugene Peterson
Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.
— LeBron James
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
— Bill Clinton
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
— Bill Clinton
When you put a revelation into practice, you won't get it 100 percent right. You might not even get it 50 percent right. But you will learn, and you will grow into a level of maturity you wouldn't otherwise have.
— Bill Johnson
In sprint car wrecks, just slam your head against a table a couple times and that's probably what it feels like. You get whiplash, all that stuff.
— Kyle Larson
No one writes for me exclusively, nor do lead roles come by that easily. 'Dulla Bhatti' was one, but I was so disappointed with the film.
— Binnu Dhillon
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
— CS Lewis
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
— Bruce Lee