Famous Quotes

"A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."

Paul Getty 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 Paul Getty

• "The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

• "My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."

• "The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

• "Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience."

• "I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life."