Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
More from: Ambrose Bierce
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. -
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. -
I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure. -
I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. -
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
More quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
- Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
- Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.