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Saturday, 19 July 2008
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"In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage." (Quincey, Thomas De - Conscience)

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Browse Quotations about Failure

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.
All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Every failure is a step to success.
Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
Everyone pushes a falling fence.
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Failure is an event, never a person.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Failure is not an option.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.
Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Failure is the path of least persistence.
Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Failure too is a form of death...
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.
Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer, as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.
I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.
I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.