#failure

"You always pass failure on your way to success."

"Success is never final, but failure can be."

"Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success."

"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."

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

"The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan."

"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."

"Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success."

"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’m more terrified of failure than rejection—so I’ll no my way to YES!"

"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."

"I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life."

"I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures."

"Remember, every failure makes you stronger and wiser."

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

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

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

"No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot."

"How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood."