377 quotes found
“It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.”
“If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.”
“If a man has a talent and cannot use it he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it he has glorious...”
“Not failure but low aim is a crime.”
“There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
“Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability.”
“There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.”
“Men do not fail they stop trying.”
“If you risk nothing then you risk everything.”
“In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.”
“A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.”
“Man must strive and in striving he must err.”
“The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.”
“If you're not failing you're not trying anything.”
“If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.”
“Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.”
“They fail and they alone who have not striven.”
“Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.”
“You don't always win your battles but it's good to know you fought.”
“Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.”
