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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Failure Quotes,
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Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

by Bishop Reginald Heber Found in: Failure Quotes,
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Greatly begin! Though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime--
Not failure, but low read more

Greatly begin! Though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime--
Not failure, but low aim is crime.

by James Russell Lowell Found in: Failure Quotes,
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Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise.
In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
[Lat., Quod read more

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise.
In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
[Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe
Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]

by Sextus Propertius Found in: Failure Quotes,
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He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
[Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]

He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
[Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]

by Francois Rabelais Found in: Failure Quotes,
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The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.
[Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam read more

The camel set out to get him horns and was shorn of his ears.
[Lat., Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit.]

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[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties.

[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties.

by Matthew Arnold Found in: Failure Quotes,
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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

by Malcolm Forbes Found in: Failure Quotes,
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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

by Humphrey Davy Found in: Failure Quotes,
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