Failure Quotes - Page 20

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Don't look for excuses to lose. Look for excuses to win.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.

Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

The cautious seldom err.

Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!

If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Each failure brings you one step closer to success.