Failure Quotes - Page 35

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.

Don't let the fear of failure or failure as a whole stop you from becoming an entrepreneur. Failure doesn't define you or your business unless you allow it to.

Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it.

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

Failure too is a form of death.

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent