Failure Quotes - Page 13

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

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. 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.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

My past is everything I failed to be.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you're reasonably good. But if you're great, that's a different thing.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.