The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
No failure is final unless you ratify it.
Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.
Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened
To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.
My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 911 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.
Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.
I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too.
success is 99% failure