Failure Quotes - Page 28

• There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

  Ian Gardner

  Achievement, Stones, Success And Failure

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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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• Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Compassion, Blessing, Different

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• Failure is not an option. Failure is a prerequisite.

  David Zinczenko

  Failure Is Not An Option, Prerequisites

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• Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

  William Penn

  Example, Pace, Failing

  Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn (1909). “The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”

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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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• What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

  Rudyard Kipling

  England, Failing, Dies

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Long, Contentment, Reign

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.844

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• We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Done, Failing, Duty

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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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• When all else fails, fresh tactics!

  John Travolta

  Tactics, Failing, When All Else Fails

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• Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

  John Owen

  Giving, Ruins, Failing

  John Owen (1839). “The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: To which are Subjoined, Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ”, p.567

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

  John Milton

  Earth, Pillars, Failing

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1798). “Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...”, p.86

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• 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.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Thinking, Waiting

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• I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

  James Russell Lowell

  Long, Tails, Judgment

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.256

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• The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

  James Agate

  Kind, Worst, Spoil

  James Agate (1949). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 7, Ego 8, Ego 9”

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• 'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

  Hugh Prather

  Mean, Faults, Standards

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.91, Bantam

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• The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  World, Trouble, Christianity

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• 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.

  George Washington

  Country, Honor, World

  George Washington (1840). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.449

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• There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

  Edith Hamilton

  Music, Beautiful, Perfection

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