Quotes by Authors - Page 185

The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
B.C. Forbes
Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.
Madeleine Kunin
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
Shirley Hufstedler
If you're not failing you're not trying anything.
Woody Allen
Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton
There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
Jane Pauley
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Flannery O'Connor
The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.
Rachel Field
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.
Anonymous
In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Men must try and try again.
Lawson Purdy
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
Phyllis Bottome
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash
There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.
Dr. Perle Thompson
Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.
Joseph H. Odell
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
Not failure but low aim is a crime.
Ernest Holmes
If a man has a talent and cannot use it he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it he has gloriously succeeded and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
Thomas Wolfe
Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
Anonymous
Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
Lewis E. Lawes
He alone fails who gives up and lies down.
Ralph Waldo Trine
You are beaten to earth? Well well what's that? Come up with a smiling face it's nothing against you to fall down flat but to lie there - that's disgrace.
Edmund Vance Cooke
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
Sonia Johnson
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.
George Horace Lorimer
Nothing succeeds like failure.
Rebecca West
There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
Michel de Montaigne
Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.
Margueritte Harmon Bro
No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.
Michelene Wandor
Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.
Archbishop Trench
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
Pearl S. Buck
What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure.
Sherwood Anderson
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Caroline L. Gascoigne
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.
Lisa M. Amos
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down " he answered.
David Seabury
Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.
George Ade
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
Marilyn Moats Kennedy
Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself hey I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute then it would be a disaster but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.
Jerry Delia Femina
When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell leap.
Cynthia Heimel
Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead-end street.
William A. Ward
Memories are the key not to the past but to the future.
Corrie ten Boom
I've never met a person I don't care what his condition in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure I believe in him for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
Preston Bradley
Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.
Dorothy Galyean
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
Pearl Bailey
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
Eliza Cook
You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still don't win at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.
Rosalynn Carter
If I lose I'll walk away and never feel bad.... Because I did all I could there was nothing more to do.
Joe Frazier
When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield
If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter
A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown
The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be right and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster you've tried you've learned something you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.
Edward McCabe
I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
Jerry Rubin
You can beat the Bear once but never the same way twice.
John McKay