#failure

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

"Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success."

"I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success."

"A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly."

"Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right."

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

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."

"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."

"Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding."

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

"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."

"Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral."

"if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!"

"How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress."

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

"Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best."

"Every failure is a step to success."

"But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism."