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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FAILURE 2
Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.
Tom Hobson
Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.
Thomas Hodgkin
We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
David Grayson (1870-1946, American journalist and writer)
Failure too is a form of death...
Graham Greene (1904-1991, British novelist)
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Thomas C. Haliburton (1796-1865, Canadian jurist, author)
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
Edith Hamilton (1867-1963, American classical scholar, translator)
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
A. W. Hare
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
A. W. Hare
Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
Molly Haskell
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
Woody Hayes (1913-1987, American college football coach)
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller (1923-, American author)
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
George Herbert (1593-1632, British metaphysical poet)
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, "Think And Grow Rich")
Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Don't set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way that you know how and the Lord will accept your effort.
Gordon B. Hinkley
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties in
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)
Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda (1906-1991, Japanese industrialist, founder of Honda Motor Corporation)
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
Tom Hopkins (1944-, American sales trainer, speaker, author)
I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
Tom Hopkins (1944-, American sales trainer, speaker, author)
Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?
Richard Hovey (1869-1900, American poet)
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
Fred Hoyle
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
John Keats (1795-1821, British poet)
I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960, American novelist)
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895, British biologist, educator)
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906, Norwegian dramatist)
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a bon vivant and a lady killer, as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint's; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
Sonia Johnson
The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
Lloyd Jones
We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach. The answer is simple: if you want something very badly, you can achieve it. It may take patience, very hard work, a real struggle, and a long time; but it can be done. That much faith is a prerequisite of any undertaking.
Margo Jones
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan (1963-, American basketball player, actor)
The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.
Carl Jung (1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist)
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats (1795-1821, British poet)
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John Keats (1795-1821, British poet)
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller (1880-1968, American blind/deaf author, lecturer, amorist)
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968, American attorney general, senator)
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958, American engineer, inventor)
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958, American engineer, inventor)
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958, American engineer, inventor)
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958, American engineer, inventor)
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958, American engineer, inventor)
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Michael Korda (1919-, American publisher)
It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C.S. Lewis
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
Louis L'Amour (1908-1988, American Western author)
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.
Louis L'Amour (1908-1988, American Western author)
Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.
Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism)
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism)
Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
Lewis E. Lawes
The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
Henry Miller (1891-1980, American author)
Failure is not an option.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964, Indian nationalist, statesman)
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th))
You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
Benjamin Lipson
Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.
Duchess Loelia
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Cassius Longinus
Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage -- and that's the same thing.
Geroge Lorimer
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987, American diplomat, writer)
Remove failure as an option.
Joan Lunden
Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
Erwin W. Lutzer (American minister)
You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.
Charles Lynch
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
Norman MacEwan
The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.
Malcolm F. MacNeil
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino (1923-1996, American motivational author, speaker) Author's website: www.ogmandino.com
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923, New Zealand-born British author)
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
Greil Marcus (1945-, American rock journalist)
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
William Moulton Marston
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
Herman Melville (1819-1891, American author)
The man who has never been flogged has never been taught.
Menander of Athens (BC 342-291, Greek dramatic poet)
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968, American religious writer, poet)
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
Arthur Miller (1915-, American dramatist)
All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller (1839-1913, American poet)
We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage.You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore (1936-, American actress)
Losing is a part of winning.
Dick Munro
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
Al Neuharth (American publisher, founder of USA today)
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
Allen H. Neuharth
Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse
Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne (1888-1931, Norwegian-born American football coach)
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994, American President (37th))
Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste, a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.
Joseph H. Odell
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