In order to succeed your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill CosbyI have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot...and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed.
Michael JordanThere is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo CoelhoI read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason CooleyGoodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David ThoreauDo the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah WinfreyI didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin FranklinIt is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
AristotleThere can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Orison Swett MardenYou drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.
Paulo CoelhoI don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah WinfreyEvery blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Carl SandburgWith public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed.
Abraham LincolnSuccess is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm
Winston ChurchillFailure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry FordHatred which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James Arthur BaldwinMy great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham LincolnOne of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas SowellFailure is simply a few errors in judgment repeated every day.
Jim RohnCourage allows the successful woman to fail, and learn powerful lessons from the failure, so that in the end she didn't fail at all.
Maya AngelouI've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael JordanI think you can have 10 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo CoelhoSuccess consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillTo establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Denis WaitleySometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
Doug CouplandEvery being in the universe has the potentiality of transcending the senses. Even the little worm will one day transcend the senses and reach God. No life will be a failure. There is no such thing as failure in the universe.
Sai BabaFailures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. LewisMany a man fails as an original thinker, simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich NietzscheI know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
Hedy LamarrWe fail to see that we can control our destiny, make ourselves do whatever is possible, make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
Orison Swett MardenLeadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
Colin PowellI speak to the black experience but I am always talking about the human condition - about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive.
Maya AngelouThink like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah WinfreySometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
Doug CouplandThere will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere and we are all apt to expect too much, but then if one scheme of happiness fails human nature turns to another, if the first calculation is wrong we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere...
Jane AustenBelievers look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
Billy GrahamThere is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric HofferSo go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
Oprah WinfreyForget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis WaitleyBooks like friends should be few and well chosen. Like friends too we should return to them again and again, for like true friends they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb ColtonRemembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.
Steve JobsMany of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. EdisonWar remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth GalbraithNot failure but low aim is crime.
James Russell LowellThere is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John KeatsRemember that failure is an event not a person.
Zig ZiglarIt's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness, poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin HubbardI 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.
Tennessee WilliamsI've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Tony RobbinsThose outages were caused by separate equipment failures
John DeweyIf any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities it becomes sick.
William JamesSuccess in life is determined by your ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillIt is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger BabsonTo know a man observe how he wins his object rather than how he loses it, for when we fail our pride supports us - when we succeed it betrays us.
Charles Caleb ColtonFailure is authentic and because it's authentic it's real and genuine and because of that it's a pure state of being.
Doug CouplandOnly aim to do your duty and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas JeffersonAn appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell LowellIf all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth GalbraithSo what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
Rush LimbaughWe shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Winston ChurchillYou cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig ZiglarFew things are impracticable in themselves, and it is for want of application rather than of means that men fail to succeed.
Francois de La RochefoucauldEdison failed 10 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon HillI should be very willing to redress men wrongs and rather check than punish crimes had not Cervantes in that all too true tale of Quixote shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord ByronLike success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement StoneFailure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George EliotI would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SophoclesBefore success comes in any man's life he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon HillMoral habits induced by public practices are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
PlutarchWhat does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us time and again?
Mitt RomneyIt is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. RooseveltSuccess or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act look feel successful conduct yourself accordingly and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William JamesIf you call failures experiments you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Mason CooleyAchievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett MardenI've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael JordanAny fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent PealeNo man ever achieved worth-while success who did not at one time or other find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon HillWe shall not fail or falter, we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Winston ChurchillThose outages were caused by separate equipment failures.
John DeweyThere is only one failure in life possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George EliotNinety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington CarverI don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill CosbyThey who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure
James AllenRestlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. EdisonYou can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
Drew BarrymoreOnce you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success it enables you to ignore the minor hurts the opponent's pressure and the temporary failures.
Vince LombardiAll human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul SartreI've never been afraid to fail.
Michael JordanMany a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use
Francis BaconYou cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett MardenAs you know from school it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared even if you fail you've done your best.
Alice WalkerNone of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.
Rush LimbaughA real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude SteinLife is a process of becoming a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais NinThere are no mistakes or failures only lessons.
Denis WaitleyFailure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. SchullerIn war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston ChurchillIt is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.
Eric HofferNothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave FlaubertFailure is a detour not a dead-end street.
Zig ZiglarGetting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed he can 'earn' more in that single day while cleaning out his desk than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today in the executive suite the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.
Warren BuffettSocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas SowellMen are born to succeed not to fail.
Henry David ThoreauI'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George EliotThe majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon HillShow me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. EdisonYou know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Rush LimbaughSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee WilliamsIt is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness, poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin HubbardI don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.
Henry RollinsOf course violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
Barack ObamaSpeakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale CarnegieThe Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack ObamaWhat great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. SchullerTo begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
James AllenThe easiest thing to do whenever you fail is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington IrvingIn war when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line banishment from all the living and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
James Arthur BaldwinIt is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore VidalTake a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But by all means try something.
Franklin D. RooseveltI would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John KeatsFailure should be our teacher not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing doing nothing and being nothing.
Denis WaitleyIt used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed but today he goes in the advertising game.
Kin HubbardAfter my spectacular failures I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Mason CooleyIt is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But above all try something.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe failed but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E. LeeOne can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
William F. Buckley, Jr.Success is going from failure to failure without the loss of enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillAll human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl SandburgMy reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard ShawMany 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.
Orison Swett MardenThe only failure one should fear is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George EliotAll that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts
James AllenCriminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction not an ethical problem.
Orson WellesWhen I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard ShawFail and your friends feel superior. Succeed and they feel resentful.
Mason CooleyI have a great respect for incremental improvement and I've done that sort of thing in my life but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
Steve JobsThose that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Winston ChurchillA man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal or it may be a worldly object according to his nature at the time being, but whichever it is he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty and should devote himself to its attainment not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies longings and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.
James AllenHowever things may seem no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThink twice before you speak because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon HillTomorrow every fault is to be amended, but that tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin FranklinWhere the senses fail us reason must step in.
Galileo GalileiThere is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Tony RobbinsSuch is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments or the like, wherein men having a delight in such vanities mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail though this happen much oftener.
Francis BaconFailure has gone to his head.
Wilson Mizner