Quotes by British Authors - Page 68

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe but each has to believe by himself.
W.H. Auden
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
A faith that sets bounds to itself that will believe so much and no more that will trust so far and no further is none.
Julius Charles Hare
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
C.S. Lewis
There is no object that we see no action that we do no good that we enjoy no evil that we feel or fear but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise as well as pious.
Anne Bradstreet
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Henry Christopher Bailey
It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
Elizabeth Goudge
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot
Those who trust us educate us.
George Eliot
All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
Freya Stark
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
Phyllis Bottome
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson
Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.
Leo Baeck
Better a false belief than no belief at all.
George Eliot
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
Douglas Jerrold
We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
Gisela Richter
Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
James Northcote
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn
It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
Ian Hunter
Failure ... is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
John Keats
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes not from example.
Fred Hoyle
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.
Richard R. Grant
Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.
Thomas Hodgkin
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them then move outwards one small step at a time.
Audrey Hepburn
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot
There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Frederic W. Farrar
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
Phyllis Bottome
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
W. L. George
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Caroline L. Gascoigne
Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
Frederick W. Robertson
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.
Michelene Wandor
Nothing succeeds like failure.
Rebecca West
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
Eliza Cook
If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.
James Burgh
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
George Eliot
Whenever at an accusation blind rage burns up within us the reason is that some arrow has pierced the joints of our harness. Behind our shining armour of righteous indignation lurks a convicted and only half-repentant sinner ... [and] we may be almost sure some sharp and bitter grain of truth lurks within it and the wound is best probed.
Jane Harrison
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Thomas Henry Huxley
No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.
Frederick W. Robertson
Life like war is a series of mistakes and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.
Frederick W. Robertson
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."
Sydney J. Harris
In all science error precedes the truth and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole
He that has much to do will do something wrong.
Samuel Johnson
To err is human to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?
Beryl Markham
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Joan Collins
Life is not life unless you make mistakes.
Joan Collins
All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.
John Locke
Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.
Lord Acton
He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.
Richard Whately
We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation but then again it's not the end of the world.
Sam Collins
Drink to me only with thine eyes And I will pledge with mine.
Ben Jonson
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul see where it flies! -
Christopher Marlowe
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley