Failure Quotes - Page 12

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.

You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.

Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.

You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

The ladder of success is there waiting for you... you just have to realize it and reach towards and climb as high as you can you will surely be successful.

The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you’ve ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...

Failure has its successes.

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm

How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this is what Einstein meant when he looked me in the eye that day and said, I would be nothing without you. It was not success he saw written in my face. He saw, rather, that I would never accomplish anything at all.