Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ‘clicks.’
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Failure is a word that I simply don’t accept.
In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure – and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
To err is human, but it feels divine.
All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure.
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
