#failure

"I was just shy of reaching my goal. My goal was to be more extroverted, so being just shy meant I completely failed."

"Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say; be prepared to silence them by doing what they think you can't do!"

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."

"You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you"

"Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures."

"Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try."

"I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures."

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."

"I can’t can’t, but since I can’t, I clearly can."

"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

"The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan."

"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat."

"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal."

"The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world."

"There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient."

"I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you."

"Remember, every failure makes you stronger and wiser."

"THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow."

"You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them."