A Quote by Sophocles

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
Greek - Poet
496 BC - 406 BC

Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

Vita Sackville-West

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

Denis Waitley

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

Woodrow Wilson

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Robert H. Schuller

I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.

Paul Hawken

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

Kate Langley Bosher

In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed.

Jacques Torres

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

Richard Branson

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

David Whyte

They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though I got some to spend; In the end...all I really need is a friend.

Bishop Nehru

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

Samuel Beckett

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

Abraham Lincoln

Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, to fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but rather live in fear of it's own potential