Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes on Failure
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful. There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.
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Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: - surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed.
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The duty of a Christian is not to succeed, but to fail cheerfully.