377 quotes found
“Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.”
“Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.”
“A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”
“Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.”
“Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.”
“Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.”
“We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.”
“Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.”
“Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.”
“The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.”
“The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.”
“Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.”
“I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.”
“If your project doesn't work look for the part that you didn't think was important.”
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
“One who fears failure limits his activities.”
“The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.”
“We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.”
“How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.”
“Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.”
