#failure

"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"

"The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it."

"I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them."

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

"Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you"

"What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference."

"And the thing is, we can’t fail. We’ve already hit the bottom and come out of it. From here on out, if we just love and listen, we can’t go wrong, babe."

"Failure are given power, not success .."

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

"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."

"We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure."

"Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters."

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

"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."

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

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success."

"You get used to success and you start to expect it—and that’s when you fail. Luckily for me, I can’t possibly fail, precisely because I always fail."

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

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

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."