Quotes by Failure Several excuses are always less convincing than one. Aldous Huxley failure inspirational life My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once. Alex Kozinski failure freedom mistake Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools. Alexander Pope failure pride men I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust. Alexander Pushkin failure dream heart It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice. Alexander Smith success-and-failure failure justice A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. Alexandre Dumas failure doubt men All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest Alfred Adler failure suicide children No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. Alfred Adler congratulations failure success If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. Alfred Nobel creativity failure fear In all education the main cause of failure is staleness. Alfred North Whitehead failure causes teaching When success turns a man's head he faces failure Alfred North Whitehead failure faces men The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song. Algernon Charles Swinburne failure pages song The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape Alice James failure luck lying For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. Alice Kahn women failure life No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. Amar Bose perseverance failure inspirational A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Ambrose Bierce failure success inspiring Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. Ambrose Bierce tyrants failure destiny Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. Ambrose Bierce failure government success PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast. Ambrose Bierce inspired failure failing GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers. Ambrose Bierce fusion failure christian «1234567891011»