Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others

Quote by Jules Renard

Topics: Failure Quotes

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For...

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For...

The bourgeois are other people.

The bourgeois are other people.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an...

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an...

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for...

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for...

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an...

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an...

Words are the small change of thought.

Words are the small change of thought.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too...

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too...

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people...

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people...

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if...

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if...

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the...

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the...

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have...

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have...

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking...

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking...