A Quote by Francis Bacon

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.

Edwin Catmull

'Bad' health, in a thousand different forms, is used as an excuse for failing to do what a person wants to do, failing to accept greater responsibilities, failing to make more money, failing to achieve success.

David Joseph Schwartz

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

Sebastian Thrun

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

Jose Bergamin

Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.

Rhonda Britten

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

Bob Goff

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding.

Astro Teller

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Julie Andrews

I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.

Vinod Khosla

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Henry James

I like winning or losing, failing or succeeding on my own merit.

CM Punk

No paper is more corrupt than the failing New York Times. The good news is it is failing, it won't be around too much longer.

Donald Trump

When I am talking to someone, I can constantly see whether I am failing or succeeding. I am regulating what I am saying in terms of how I think I'm doing. I'm always searching for the truth of a subject or person, and I look at every meeting as a grand experiment.

Brian Grazer

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.