Famous Quotes
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
More quotes about Failure
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"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt on Failure -
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
Michael Jordan on Failure -
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge on Failure -
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
Abraham Lincoln on Failure -
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."
Steve Jobs on Failure
More quotes by Ambrose Bierce
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"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."
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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
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"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."