If you don't try at anything, you can't fail. It takes back bone to lead the life you want. —Richard Yates in Revolutionary Road More about this quote Tags: life accomplishment risk failure achievement trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: action failure belief impossibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. —Samuel McChord Crothers More about this quote Tags: perfection imperfection failure labor work effort trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: failure youth work effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Failure is an event, never a person. —William D. Brown More about this quote Tags: failure self-worth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn't keep. —Shannon L. Alder More about this quote Tags: failure morality standards Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When confronted by a human being who impresses us as truly great, should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his failures? —Lou Andreas-Salome More about this quote Tags: knowledge failure greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Glorious failures are often much more wonderful than easy victories. —Jonathan Friesen in Aldo's Fantastical Movie Palace More about this quote Tags: failure glory vicotry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. —Quentin Crisp More about this quote Tags: success failure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. —George Edward Woodberry More about this quote Tags: failure defeat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: failure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: failure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. —Beverly Sills More about this quote Tags: failure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. —Bill Cosby More about this quote Tags: failure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. —Bill Lyon More about this quote Tags: failure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email