The success or failure of a life, as far as poster... -Alice James

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

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Alice James was an American writer and diarist. She is known for her personal journals and letters, which provide valuable insights into the intellectual and cultural life of the late 19th century. Although her writings were not published during her lifetime, they have been recognized for their literary and historical significance.

Alice James Quotes to Explore

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience....
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape....
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more....
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity....
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading....
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am....
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?...
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience....
How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody self...
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul....

Failure Quotes to Explore

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an o...
I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure....
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life ...
I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments wh...
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the wo...
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think....
I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way...
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and somethi...
As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure....
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keep...