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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth the having, it is certain never to be consummated otherwise than by a failure.

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides.

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

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

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime usually do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed only for those exceptionally rare circumstances when all other rights have failed. A free people can only afford to make this mistake once.

Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.