Tom Stoppard Quotes

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

You cannot be successful without failure.

I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.

If you can't fail, you can never get better.

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.

Failure is just success rounded down.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.