I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. EdisonBy failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin FranklinI 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 JordanOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
ConfuciusThe only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
BuddhaYou never fail until you stop trying
Albert EinsteinI read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason CooleyYou will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
Maya AngelouGoodness 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 FranklinThere was a man from Sung who pulled at his rice plants because he was worried about their failure to grow.
ConfuciusIt 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 WinfreyLife is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da VinciEvery 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 SandburgSuccess depends upon previous preparation and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
ConfuciusA beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
MichelangeloWith public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed.
Abraham LincolnBy failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Paul RyanIs pride the never-failing vice of fools?
Alexander PopeHatred which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James Arthur BaldwinDestiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose BierceOne 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 RohnI'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. LewisWe 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 PowellSometimes 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 AustenAs a child, the family that I had, and the love I had from my two parents, allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that if I failed I could always come home to a family of love and support.
Tiger WoodsThere is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric HofferForget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis WaitleyLearned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerBooks 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 ColtonI was only the servant of my country and had I at any moment failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston ChurchillWhen you are offended at any man's fault turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EpictetusIt is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore RooseveltA person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose BierceRemembering 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. EdisonIf you cry 'forward' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Anton ChekhovTo introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over to become ignorant again and to run the old old risk of failing to learn.
Isaac AsimovA failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert HubbardSome editors are failed writers but so are most writers.
T. S. EliotWar remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth GalbraithOur greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHalf the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
Carroll O'ConnorThe price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
Donald RumsfeldNot failure but low aim is crime.
James Russell LowellYou fail only if you stop writing.
Ray BradburyFinite to fail but infinite to venture.
Emily DickinsonThere is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John KeatsLaw and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.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.
E. O. WilsonA prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston ChurchillRemember 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 don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
Noel CowardSocialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston ChurchillWhy should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest HemingwayI 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 DeweyI hate failure, and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille BallPolitically there were failures. And also on the personal level there were tremendous failures.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIf any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities it becomes sick.
William JamesFailure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerSuccess in life is determined by your ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillOptimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Elbert HubbardIf men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andre MauroisOnce you start a working on something don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
ChanakyaTo 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 GalbraithYou are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. WilsonSo 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 RochefoucauldSuccess is never final failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John WoodenIf you don't fail now and again it's a sign you're playing it safe.
Woody AllenI 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 ByronFailure 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.
SophoclesMoral 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 JordanWe 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 CarverIn other words don't expect to always be great. Disappointments failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem let's go and get it'.
Colin PowellRestlessness 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. EdisonAll human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul SartreI've never been afraid to fail.
Michael JordanYou 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 MardenIdeology politics and journalism which luxuriate in failure are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'RourkeNone 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 SteinMy failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.
Tiger WoodsFar better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore RooseveltThe reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are served by the same cable loop and the cable loop was affected by equipment failures. But the cable itself is in good working order.
John DeweyOne's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense every man can be a king and must therefore be treated like a king.
Abraham MaslowIf a building looks better under construction than it does when finished then it's a failure.
Doug CouplandAt 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities know how far he can go foretell his failures - be what he is. And above all accept these things.
Albert CamusI can accept failure everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael JordanThere 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. SchullerThe reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are served by the same cable loop and the cable loop was affected by equipment failures ... But the cable itself is in good working order.
John DeweyFailure is not fatal but failure to change might be.
John WoodenThe system has seriously failed. And when the system fails you have to go to the head. And he won't answer the questions.
Lance ArmstrongNo matter how vast how total the failure of man here on earth the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that but man's front embraces the whole universe.
Henry MillerThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William JamesIt 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 SowellWhy do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
J. K. RowlingRather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SophoclesThere are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.
Colin PowellThe 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. EdisonSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee WilliamsIt is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness, poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin HubbardThroughout my career if I have done anything I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener I fail.
Frank SinatraI 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 ObamaPresident Obama Nancy Pelosi Harry Reid and their team have failed the American people and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.
Mitt RomneyWhat 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 AllenBusiness and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
Mitt RomneyThe easiest thing to do whenever you fail is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington IrvingThe 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 KeatsWhen Love can bring even God nearer to you how can it fail where man is involved?
Sai BabaIt used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed but today he goes in the advertising game.
Kin HubbardIt 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. RooseveltSuccess 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 MardenAll 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 ShawGreatly begin. Though thou have time but for a line be that sublime. Not failure but low aim is crime.
James Russell LowellIn America there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack ObamaEvery experiment by multitudes or by individuals that has a sensual and selfish aim will fail.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAmbition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar WildeI 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 ChurchillIt is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all in which case you have failed by default.
J. K. RowlingA 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 AllenThings have never been so swell i have never failed to fail
Kurt CobainInstruct the women of the village in the basic principles of child health, chile-care and child training. When health fails, people become despondent and even desperate.
Sai BabaIf you're not failing every now and again it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody AllenSuccess is the result of perfection hard work learning from failure loyalty and persistence.
Colin PowellIf thou art a man admire those who attempt great things even though they fail.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAll that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
James AllenThink 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 GalileiA man may speak very well in the House of Commons and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend in the course of my career if I have time to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin DisraeliMy father was not a failure. After all he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. TrumanNo man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William FeatherThe guns and the bombs the rockets and the warships are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNever fret for an only son the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard ShawIf there exists no possibility of failure then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. SchullerThere is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Kin HubbardWe have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.
Rudyard KiplingThere is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Tony RobbinsFailure has gone to his head.
Wilson Mizner