#failure

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

"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."

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

"I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes."

"Failure is a part of success."

"Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity."

"Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure."

"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure."

"We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts."

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

"Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them."

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

"You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure."

"I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."

"You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'"

"I haven’t spent my time trying to duplicate my success. But only because I haven’t had any yet."

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

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

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

"An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same."