Famous Quotes

"I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success."

Paulo Coelho 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 Paulo Coelho

• "Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age."

• "We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question."

• "Beauty is the greatest seducer of man."

• "Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way."

• "I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong."