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Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.

I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician.

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

I don't think anyone's a failure as long as they're still innocent. Just a little. They may lose everything good in them but as long as they believe just a little in something very small, they're still innocent. To fail is to lose every bit of innocence.

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.

If success were easy, then it would not necessarily be true success. Some of history's most successful people learned to cope with failure as a natural offshoot of the experimental and creative process and often learned more from their failures than their successes. By taking the attitude that failure is merely a detour on the way to our destination, hope can blossom into success.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

If you think you can - you can!

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am I afraid of?" I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.