Stage Failure

Famous quotes containing the words stage and/or failure:

“When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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 (1819–1891)