Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Quotations on Failure




"I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it."
Hank Aaron



"The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully." Karl Albrecht


"To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment." James Allen


"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention." James Baldwin


"We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln." Bruce Barton


"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes." Anne Baxter


"On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear." Bhagavad Gita


"No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward." Amar Gopal Bose

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