Quotes by Contending And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life. Joyce Carol Oates contending my-own feels I have been contending all my life, and always with God. Lincoln Steffens contending has-beens Pride is self contending with God for preeminence. Stephen Charnock contending pride self
