Quotes by Failure Several excuses are always less convincing than one. Aldous Huxley failureinspirationallife 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 failurefreedommistake 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 failurepridemen 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 failuredreamheart 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-failurefailurejustice 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 failuredoubtmen All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest Alfred Adler failuresuicidechildren 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 congratulationsfailuresuccess If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. Alfred Nobel creativityfailurefear In all education the main cause of failure is staleness. Alfred North Whitehead failurecausesteaching When success turns a man's head he faces failure Alfred North Whitehead failurefacesmen 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 failurepagessong 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 failurelucklying For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. Alice Kahn womenfailurelife 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 perseverancefailureinspirational 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 failuresuccessinspiring Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. Ambrose Bierce tyrantsfailuredestiny Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. Ambrose Bierce failuregovernmentsuccess PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast. Ambrose Bierce inspiredfailurefailing 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 fusionfailurechristian«1234567891011»
