failure Quotes

“if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

topic:happiness failure

“When I talk to graduating classes, I always tell a brief version of the story of my life and try to offer lessons everybody can use: have a vision, trust yourself, break some rules, ignore the naysayers, don’t be afraid to fail.”

― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

topic:failure

“The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest...”

― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

topic:success failure

“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, The Gay Science

topic:success failure

“Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,And there follows a mist and a weeping rain,And life is never the same again.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:life failure

“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

topic:time success failure respect value

“oft evil will shall evil mar.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

topic:evil failure

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

topic:failure

“The failure of global summits on the environment make it plain that our politics are subject to technology and finance.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

topic:politics failure

“Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:fear darkness failure

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