#failure

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try."

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

"The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it."

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

"He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't."

"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."

"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!"

"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."

"You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life."

"You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend."

"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."

"What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up."

"When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate."

"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."

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

"Success unshared is failure."

"Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it."

"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!"

"I never fail. It's just that the people around me succeed more than I."

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