Failing Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Failure Men Succeed Success Wells Wisdom
The man who fails while trying to do good has more honor than he who succeeds by accident — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
A man is not a failure when he is defeated. He fails when he give up and quit trying. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried. — Bud Wilkinson Copy Share Image
A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it. — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
A man may fail many times. But he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Someone who tries to do something and fails is a lot better off than the person who tries to do nothing and succeeds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image
