I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Quote by TS Eliot

Topics: Failure Quotes, Words Quotes

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right...

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right...

In my end is my beginning.

In my end is my beginning.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be...

Those who trust us educate us.

Those who trust us educate us.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made...

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made...

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after -...

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after -...

This love is silent.

This love is silent.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.

Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.

In the midst of life we are in death.

In the midst of life we are in death.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to...

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to...