#failure

"Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility."

"The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -"

"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"

"Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments."

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure."

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

"I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it."

"Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets."

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

"Failure is an opportunity to reflect and realize."

"My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world."

"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."

"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

"The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm"

"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."

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."

"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."

"Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent."

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."