Quotes by Failure And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last. Robert W. Service failurewinningrunning Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. Roger von Oech failurebusinesswork Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying. Ron Dellums crimefailuretrying Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat. Ron Holland defeatfailurestones I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito. Ronald Ross malariafailurescience I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you're reasonably good. But if you're great, that's a different thing. Ronnie Drew failurenightthinking You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet. Rory McIlroy wellsfailurebalance 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 womenfailurecourage Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. Ross Perot kneesfailurepain It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue. Rowan Williams issuesfailurereal We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling failureexcusesuccess All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet. Rupert Murdoch failuregovernmenttrying What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live? Rudyard Kipling failurefailingengland If you think you can - you can! Ronald Reagan failuregood-luckthinking Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well. Ruth Simmons achievementfuelfailure Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. S. I. Hayakawa failuredifferencesmen Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them. Sam Harris wrong-answersfailureproblem Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. Samuel Butler adversityfailuremen The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. Samuel Gompers failurebusinesspeople Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. Samuel Beckett failureinspiringtrying«3334353637383940414243»
