Thought for Today

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

~~~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thought for Today

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

~~~~~ Samuel Smiles

Thought for Today

"Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education."

~~~~~ John Hersey

Thought for Today

"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

Thought for Today

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

~~~~~ George Washington Carver

Thought for Today

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody."

~~~~~ Herbert Bayard Swope

Thought for Today

"If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know."

~~~~~ Thomas Wolfe

Thought for Today

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

~~~~~ Truman Capote

Thought for Today - Monday, September 1, 2014

"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."

~~~~~ Kin Hubbard

Thought for Today

"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows."

~~~~~ Frederic William Farrar

Thought for Today

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."

~~~~~ Georges Clemenceau

Thought for Today

"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."

~~~~~ Samuel McChord Crothers

Thought for Today

"You can get all A's and still flunk life."

~~~~~ Walker Percy

Thought for Today

"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

~~~~~ Oliver Goldsmith

Thought for Today

"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose -- not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."

~~~~~ Anne Sullivan

Thought for Today

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

~~~~~ George Washington Carver

Thought for Today

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody."

~~~~ Herbert Bayard Swope

Thought for Today

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

~~~~~ Morihei Ueshiba

Thought for Today

"In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try."

~~~~~ David Viscott

Thought for Today

"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

~~~~~ Mary Pickford