Famous Quotes

"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

Eric Hoffer on Failure

More quotes about Failure

• "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

  Theodore Roosevelt on Failure

• "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

  Michael Jordan on Failure

• "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

  Calvin Coolidge on Failure

• "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

  Abraham Lincoln on Failure

• "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

  Steve Jobs on Failure

More quotes by Eric Hoffer

• "It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

• "Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."

• "The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."

• "The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."

• "The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."