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We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start.

When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail? Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold cereals were rejected by consumers. More often new products fail because they are not new enough.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.