Failure Quotes - Page 24

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

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Keeping Promises, Expectations

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.216

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• Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Insulting

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Perseverance, Courage, Mean

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• Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

  Jimmy Carter

  Reality, Challenges, Trying

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith”, p.221, Three Rivers Press

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• God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember, God and one other person can be a family.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Prayer, Heart, Light

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

  Confucius

  Mistake, Educational, Faults

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

  Beatrix Potter

  Inspirational, People, Wells

  Beatrix Potter, Judy Taylor (2012). “Beatrix Potter's Letters”, p.219, Penguin UK

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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

  Helen Keller

  Cheer, Giving Up, Optimistic

  Helen Keller's Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Dorothea Brande

  Inspirational, Positive, Hard Work

  Donald G. Carty, Dorothea Brande (2013). “How to Wake Up and Live: A Formula for Success That Works”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

  Bruce Lee

  Positive, Causes, Concentration

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.58, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Disappointment, Age

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.618, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Is not falling down. Failure Is desiring to live Where I have fallen.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Fall, Falling Down, Fallen

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• Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with willpower to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there can be failure, and there will be failure. Push it to a place where there can be success, and there will be success. But whether there is success or failure, if one entrusts himself to the straightness of this wagon of the core of the mind, he will attain right-mindedness in either case. Severing oneself from desire and being like a rock or tree, nothing will ever be achieved. Not departing from desire, but realizing a desireless right-mindedness - "this is the Way".

  Takuan Soho

  Rocks, Tree, Mind

  "The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman".

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• In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Difficult Situations, Done, Failing

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

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• Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

  Samuel Johnson

  Failing, Ashamed, Please

  'Irene' (1749) prologue

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• Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Men, Night

  'Popularity' (1855) st. 1

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• Most progress is most failure.

  Robert Browning

  Progress

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.69

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• To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

  Plutarch

  Failing, Harm

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• Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Generosity, Degrees, Noble

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.53

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