Quotes about failure
failure men secret
Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting. William James
failure thumbs crowds
Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds. Wilbur Smith
failure good-luck thinking
If you think you can - you can! Ronald Reagan
failure men thinking
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. Robert W. Service
failure blessing civil-war
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. Robert E. Lee
failure ideas trying
To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can. Richard P. Feynman
failure men political
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind. Richard Hofstadter
failure effort
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Richard Whately
failure victory possibility
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. Robert H. Schuller
failure difficult-situations done
In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can. Robert Baden-Powell
failure men presidential
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. Richard M. Nixon
failure screw-ups life-is
Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance. Sarah Dessen
failure men misery
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. Samuel Johnson
failure past design
Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.
failure giving individual
Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine. Voltaire
failure crime i-have-made-mistakes
Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is. Walter Wriston
failure failing mishaps
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one Walter Savage Landor
failure mean detours
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Zig Ziglar
failure winning games
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it. William Hazlitt
failure giving doubt
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
failure character men
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. W. Somerset Maugham
failure errors rockets
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket. Wernher von Braun
failure adversity men
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. Samuel Butler
failure no-failure
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
failure luck superstitions
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
failure glory undertakings
In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure. Lee Iacocca
failure night typewriters
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. Tennessee Williams
failure failing ashamed
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
failure defeat discouragement
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
failure self effort
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Robert M. Pirsig
failure fall degrees
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. Robert Louis Stevenson
failure way compost
I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way. Tim Johnson
failure wrong-answers problem
Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them. Sam Harris