Quotes on Failure

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.