Famous Quotes

"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve."

John B. S. Haldane 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 John B. S. Haldane

• "I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."

• "If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles."

• "I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."

• "If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles."

• "Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."