684 private quotes tagged failure

“Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Translation is the art of failure.” — Umberto Eco

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“Every failure is a step to success.” — William Whewell

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“Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.” — Lily Tomlin

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“So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.” — Suze Orman

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“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.” — Dorthea Brande

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“Failure is a word unknown to me.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?” — Debra Winger

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“Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.” — Samuel Beckett

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“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” — Denis Waitley

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“Failure too is a form of death.” — Graham Greene

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“That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.” — Berkeley Breathed

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“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.” — E. O. Wilson

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“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.” — Errol Flynn

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“I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.” — Nikki Giovanni

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“It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.” — Anne Baxter

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“One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.” — Abraham Maslow

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“I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.” — Branch Rickey

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“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” — Wilma Rudolph

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“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.” — Andre Malraux

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“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.” — Maxwell Maltz

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“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.” — Herbert Kaufman

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“You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.” — Rosalynn Carter

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