Failure Quotes - Page 12

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.

A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.