Failure Quotes - Page 22

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.

Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.