The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
I wasn’t afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody.
