Quotes about failure
failure accepting learning-from-failure
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. George Cukor
failure exhausting
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure. Madeleine L'Engle
failure men self
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. Joseph Heller
failure who-i-am hendrix
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. John Mayer
failure world defeat
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing. Katherine Anne Porter
failure islam wells
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. Karen Armstrong
failure discovery success-and-failure
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true. John Keats
failure hell objects
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
failure positive-experiences discouraged
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
failure success-and-failure highways
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success...
failure successful men
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates. John D. Rockefeller
failure trying failing
How to fail: Try too hard. Malcolm Forbes
failure concern accounts
But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine. Mahatma Gandhi
failure mean science
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working. Joseph Murray
failure missing mark
What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly? Ouida
failure taste excuse
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life Oscar Wilde
failure design risk
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Paul Tillich
failure numbers two
Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed Gustav Mahler
failure world trouble
The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult. Gilbert K. Chesterton
failure civilization world
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
failure past past-failures
Ignore past failures and forge ahead. Maxwell Maltz
failure interesting max
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. Max Beerbohm
failure taxation world
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. Mark Skousen
failure hard learning result success work
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. Colin Powell
failure effort
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Richard Whately
failure science malaria
I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito. Ronald Ross
failure food weight-loss
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. Totie Fields
failure succeed transformation
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up. Paul Valery
failure adversity darkness
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. Pliny the Elder
failure failing harm
To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm. Plutarch
failure procrastination done
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. Rita Mae Brown
failure risk kind
There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure. Richard Marcinko
failure victory possibility
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. Robert H. Schuller