Noble Failure Quotes

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.

We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.