684 private quotes tagged failure

“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.”— E. O. Wilson

“If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.”— E. O. Wilson

“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”— Christopher Morley

“That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.”— Berkeley Breathed

“Translation is the art of failure.”— Umberto Eco

“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.”— William James

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”— Norman Vincent Peale

“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”— Walter Scott

“In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.”— Naveen Jain

“If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.”— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”— B. F. Skinner

“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

“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”— Orison Swett Marden

“It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.”— Anne Baxter

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.”— Doug Coupland

“The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.”— B. C. Forbes

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”— Colin Powell

“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.”— Robert H. Schuller

“People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!”— Don Johnson

“Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”— Denis Waitley

“Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.”— Jeff Goodell

“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”— Charlie Chaplin

“There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.”— Orison Swett Marden

“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”— Herbert Kaufman