
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
- Topic: Failure, Success
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
› Gisela Richter
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
› Elbert Hubbard
What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
› Sextus Propertius
I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.
› Tim Tebow
Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.
› Theodore Roosevelt
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
› Benjamin Disraeli
Failure is 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 man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.
› Zig Ziglar
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
› Alexander Graham Bell
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
› Nelson Mandela
Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.
› Wilber & Orville Wright
The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
› Dalai Lama
Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.
› James Allen
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
› Paramahansa Yogananda
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
› Booker T. Washington
