A Quote by Herman Melville

Failure is the test of greatness.

Herman Melville

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Failure Greatness Test

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Herman Melville
American - Novelist
August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

Failure is the true test of greatness

Herman Melville

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Herman Melville

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

James Buchanan

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

Herman Melville

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

A. Powell Davies

The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory

Timothy Keller

The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.

Jim Tressel

The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.

Guy Finley

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.

Charles M. Schwab

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.