Failure Quotes - Page 25

• 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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Insulting

  852 Copy quote

• 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

  58 Copy quote

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

  Marilyn Monroe

  Perseverance, Courage, Mean

  56 Copy quote

• 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

  104 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  109 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  64 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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

  448 Copy quote

• 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.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  112 Copy quote

• 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

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  20 Copy quote

• 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

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  383 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

  Lee Iacocca

  Glory, Undertakings

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.354, Bantam

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Success, Fall

  27 Copy quote

• Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

  H. L. Mencken

  Learning, Men, Failing

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail? Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold cereals were rejected by consumers. More often new products fail because they are not new enough.

  David Ogilvy

  Eight, Cereal, Firsts

  5 Copy quote

• The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Success, Men, Secret

  20 Copy quote

• It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

  Isaac Stern

  Experience, Grows, Experiments

  18 Copy quote

• Success is on the far side of failure.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Success, Fear, Creativity

  21 Copy quote

• 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.

  Simone Weil

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

  9 Copy quote