09Dec08

Samuel Smiles:

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Theodore Roosevelt:

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910

Thomas Alva Edison:

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Winston Churchill:

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

“When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure For what we think, will come about.”

The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, ‘Oh how useless and powerless I am.’ It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, ‘I can do it,’ without boasting or fretting.”

Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama quotes If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.” Remember that failure is an event, not a person”  Zig Ziglar quotes Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.  ~F. Scott Fitzgerald They say President Wilson has blundered.  Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.  ~Thomas Edison Act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande

 

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