Famous Quotes

"My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about."

Dean Kamen on Failure

More quotes about Failure

• "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 Dean Kamen

• "Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections."

• "The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle."

• "I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life."

• "Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do."

• "If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false."