Failure Quotes - Page 32

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

God stays faithful to us in spite of our repeated failures.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

The priesthood of God has become the eminent power for good in the world. We are no longer a handful of people on the fringes of society. This great power for good has been entrusted to us, and we must not weaken it by failing in our responsibilities.

Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.