Failure Quotes - Page 26

It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.

Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of life and build philosophies to meet them and make the best of them.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.

Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

Nothing fails like failure

Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working.

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.