Failures Quotes - Page 3

Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.

Malcolm F. MacNeil

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

If you're not failing you're not trying anything.

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Shirley Hufstedler

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

Andre Bustanoby

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Georges Clémenceau

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.

Madeleine Kunin

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Failure is not in losing but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

Anonymous

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

Inside of a ring or out ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.

If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

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.

Not failure but low aim is a crime.

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

Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.

Joseph H. Odell

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

Men do not fail they stop trying.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Phyllis Bottome

If you risk nothing then you risk everything.

Men must try and try again.

In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.

Francis Ford Coppola

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.

Caroline L. Gascoigne

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

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

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Thomas A. Edison

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

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

No honest work of man or woman "fails" it feeds the sum of all human action.

Michelene Wandor

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Frederick W. Robertson

Sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.

Margueritte Harmon Bro

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing succeeds like failure.

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

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

William Feather

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

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.

Jeanne Robertson

Memories are the key not to the past but to the future.

Corrie ten Boom

Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead-end street.

William A. Ward

Finite to fail but infinite to venture.

Emily Dickinson

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.

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

Failure is an event never a person.

William D. Brown

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Marilyn Moats Kennedy

Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … 8 Next