#failure

"It is not the success, but it is the failures that make us stronger and more resilient."

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"The way into the hall of success always passes through the chamber of decision. Decide to be a success; success is deliberate!"

"Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way."

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."

"Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness."

"Create your own path.Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M"is silent."

"In a good economy, people work hard to succeed. In a bad economy, people work hard to not fail."

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."

"Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives."

"To err is human, to forgive, divine."

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."

"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

"No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s ALWAYS had EVERYTHING work out for them with ZERO struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist."

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."

"Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried."

"At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure."

"Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure."