Anne Baxter famous quotes

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
-- Anne Baxter

#Failure #Failing

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
-- Anne Baxter

#Inspiring #Failure #Phoenix

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
-- Anne Baxter

#Unity #Liberty #Charity

See into life, don't just look at it
-- Anne Baxter

#Looks

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
-- Anne Baxter

#Night #Grandfather #Red

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
-- Anne Baxter

#Home #Temptation #Devil

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous