„Without will, no conflict: no tragedy among the abulic. Yet the failure of will can be experienced more painfully than a tragic destiny.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment is more normal than arrival.“
— John C. Maxwell
„I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.“
— John Keats
„A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.“
— Chinua Achebe
„Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm“
— Winston S. Churchill