Failure Quote by John Steinbeck

“It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men: kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants…

— John Steinbeck

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants…

— John Steinbeck

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always…

— Charles M. Schwab

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

— Bryant H. McGill

“Patience; kindness; generosity; humility; courtesy; unselfishness; good temper; guilelessness; sincerity—these make up the supreme gift, the stature of the perfect man.”

— Henry Drummond

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we can respect.…

— D. Todd Christofferson

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them.…

— Albert Einstein

“Their (men) sense of self is defined through their ability to achieve results. They experience fulfillment primarily through success and accomplishment.”

— John Gray