Failure Quotes - Page 11

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.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.