#failure

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

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

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

"No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!"

"Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed."

"Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades."

"It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth."

"Without honesty and integrity, success is nothing but a terrible failure."

"It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed."

"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."

"Failure is an opportunity to reflect and realize."

"One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!"

"We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success."

"Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops."

"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure—not from success."

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

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

"If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success."