Failure
Quotes - Do not fear failure
“I
have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
―
Thomas A. Edison
“Success
is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
―
Winston S. Churchill
“I
can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula
for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
―
Herbert Bayard Swope
“Pain
is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
―
Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts
“Do
not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“You
must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen
automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this
is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best
of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
―
Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Failure
is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
―
Truman Capote
“Have
no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
―
Salvador Dali
“Don't
spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
―
Coco Chanel
“You
may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be
necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can
rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
―
Maya Angelou
“The
brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us
out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want
something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want
it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
―
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“To
err is human, to forgive, divine.”
―
Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
“My
fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of
them.”
―
Jack Kerouac
“No
matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or
going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great
things at different ages
1)
Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t
stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts
degree.
2)
Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age
of 5.
3)
Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”
4)
Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5)
Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6)
Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and
won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7)
Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950,
at the age of 15.
8)
Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958
with Brazil.
9)
Elvis was a superstar by age 19.
10)
John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their
first concert in 1961.
11)
Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
12)
Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23
13)
Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24
14)
Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record
15)
Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
16)
Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France
17)
Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age
28
18)
Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the
ancient world
19)
J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry
Potter
20)
Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across
the Atlantic Ocean
21)
Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated
program of its kind
22)
Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest
23)
Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream."
24)
Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in
Physics
25)
The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the
world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and
sustained heavier-than-air human flight
26)
Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today
are worth millions.
27)
Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.
28)
Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and
49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
29)
Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas
30)
Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up
her seat to make room for a white passenger
31)
John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States
32)
Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.
33)
Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"
34) Charles
Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.
35)
Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.
36)
Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.
37)
Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to
unprecedented levels.
38)
Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".
40)
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he
successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of
the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived
41)
Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise
42)
J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out
43)
Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US
44)
Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats
45)
Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President”
―
Pablo
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
―
Theodore Roosevelt
“A
thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find
out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
