Quotes by Failure All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame. Hermann Hesse failure common men The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures. Humphry Davy failure important discovery How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile. Henry David Thoreau failure understanding men 'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine. Hugh Prather faults failure mean He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small. Herman Melville failure greatness success Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. Honore de Balzac remembrance failure age There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones. Ian Gardner achievement failure stones The only people who never fail are those who never try Ilka Chase failure positive inspirational Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure. Ingmar Bergman embarrassing effort failure All our failures are ultimately failures in love. Iris Murdoch failure To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. Irving Babbitt achieve failure important It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow. Isaac Stern failure experience grows I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. The years pass and one has only one life. If one has a thing at all one must do it and keep on and on and on trying to do it better. Iris Murdoch failure book years To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong. Ivar Giaever failure moments ideas Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more. Ivan Panin being-thankful failure opportunity While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. Isak Dinesen failure bears ideas Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing. J. K. Rowling failure important people Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. J. G. Holland failure use men Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into. J. Ogden Armour rope failure busy Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. J. K. Rowling finishing failure energy «1415161718192021222324»
