Showing posts with label great quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label great quotes. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 August 2012

Quotes on Failure 3


Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John Wooden

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon Hill

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill


Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn


Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison

My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas Sowell

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
Charlie Sheen

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
Robert Orben

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bush

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard



The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Saturday, 14 July 2012

Quotes By Adolf Hitler


How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Adolf Hitler

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Adolf Hitler

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolf Hitler

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
Adolf Hitler

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Adolf Hitler

Great liars are also great magicians.
Adolf Hitler

Hate is more lasting than dislike.
Adolf Hitler

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Adolf Hitler

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler

It is not truth that matters, but victory.Adolf Hitler

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.Adolf Hitler

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.Adolf Hitler

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.Adolf Hitler

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” Adolf Hitler 

Quotes By Bill Gates 1


1) If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.

2) This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

3) Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

4) Life is not fair; get used to it.

5) Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

6) If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

7) It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.


8) In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.

9) We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

10) As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

11) If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

12) I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

13) Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

14) If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

15) People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

16) Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.


17) Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

18) Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

19) It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

20) Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

21) People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

22) If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

23) The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

24) Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

25) Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Quotes By Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein
Quotes By Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Albert Einstein

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein


Thursday, 12 July 2012

Quotes By Rabindranath Tagore


Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath Tagore

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Facts are many, but the truth is one.
Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear.
Rabindranath Tagore

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world when we love it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Quotes By Nelson Mandela


It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.Nelson Mandela

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.Nelson Mandela

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela

Quotes on Friendship


A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard 

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow 

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus 

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle 

Friendship is such a fabulous feel you don't wanna miss in this life!
Sathish