Quotes about failure
failures list
The list of failures and shortcomings is long.
failure sleep men
To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
failure men humanity
The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success. Norman Vincent Peale
failure expectations zits
On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked. Ellis Hobbs
failure sleep men
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this. Simone Weil
failure determined-to-succeed way
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
failure want succeed
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. Thomas Watson, Jr.
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 men understanding
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile. Henry David Thoreau
failure tactics failing
When all else fails, fresh tactics! John Travolta
failure long tails
I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail. James Russell Lowell
failure done way
A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way. Thomas A. Edison
failure president wilson
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
failure failing
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
failure artist growing
Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing ... May Sarton
failure legacy money taxpayers terrible value
The chancellor's failure to give Britain's taxpayers value for money will be the terrible legacy of this government.
failure fix incapacity proof stigma
The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
failure exhausting
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure. Madeleine L'Engle
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 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 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 care want
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. Emma Watson
failure accepting
Failure is a word I don't accept. John H. Johnson
failure men self
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. Joseph Heller
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 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