#failure

"It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success."

"As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?"

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

"You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday."

"Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth."

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

"When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us."

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

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

"We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success."

"True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people."

"No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s ALWAYS had EVERYTHING work out for them with ZERO struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist."

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

"I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success."

"One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!"

"In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure."

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

"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."

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."

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