Success is bounding from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

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

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents worried five of them to death impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails we hold an election and assassinate their character.

At 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.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

I can accept failure everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

There are no mistakes or failures only lessons.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Don't take 'no' for an answer never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even s

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

The 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.

Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.

The system has seriously failed. And when the system fails you have to go to the head. And he won't answer the questions.

In 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.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties mental and physical but the burden of one's memories.

What love we've given we'll have forever. What love we fail to give will be lost for all eternity.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about if I fail at those if I'm not successful what do I have?

No 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.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Failure is a detour not a dead-end street.

People must have righteous principals in the first and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Getting 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.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Men are born to succeed not to fail.

If you're doing your best you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Why 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.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.

I'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.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness, poverty and wealth have both failed.

Throughout 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.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

Of 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.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

The 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.

President 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.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Consul - in American politics a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

To 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.

Business 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.

The easiest thing to do whenever you fail is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

In 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.

Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in good spirits.

The 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.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But by all means try something.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Failure 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.

When Love can bring even God nearer to you how can it fail where man is involved?

It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed but today he goes in the advertising game.

After my spectacular failures I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But above all try something.

We failed but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

One 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.

Success is going from failure to failure without the loss of enthusiasm.

I really love idiot enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances, they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

My reputation grows with every failure.

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.

The only failure one should fear is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Criminals 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.

When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Fail and your friends feel superior. Succeed and they feel resentful.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time but for a line be that sublime. Not failure but low aim is crime.

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

In America there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

Every experiment by multitudes or by individuals that has a sensual and selfish aim will fail.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I 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.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

It 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.

A 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.

Things have never been so swell i have never failed to fail

Instruct 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.

If you're not failing every now and again it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Success is the result of perfection hard work learning from failure loyalty and persistence.

However things may seem no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Study nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

If thou art a man admire those who attempt great things even though they fail.

I want anyone who believes in life liberty pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force any person any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success I want that organization that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Think twice before you speak because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Tomorrow every fault is to be amended, but that tomorrow never comes.

Where the senses fail us reason must step in.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

A 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.

My father was not a failure. After all he was the father of a president of the United States.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Fail at love and the other tests don't matter.

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

The guns and the bombs the rockets and the warships are all symbols of human failure.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

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

Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error, to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action, to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds.

If there exists no possibility of failure then victory is meaningless.

There 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.

We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Such 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.

Failure has gone to his head.

Don Winston Churchill

As water when transmuted into steam becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so passion when transmuted into intellectual and moral force becomes a new life, a new power, for the accomplishment of high and unfailing purposes.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

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.

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

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

The great question is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with failure.

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning there will be no failure.

Every adversity every failure every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

In the last analysis the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

When ideas fail words come in very handy.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause, to an ardent generous perhaps an immoderate passion for fame, a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

No attempt should be made to belittle Society and benefit only the family for it is bound to fail.

For just when ideas fail a word comes in to save the situation.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

In all my perplexities and distresses the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men kindness and generosity openness honesty understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest sharpness greed acquisitiveness meanness egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

No man fails who does his best.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor the education of its young the repair of its failing infrastructure the repayment of its staggering war debts.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Failure is not a single cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead failure is a few errors in judgement repeated every day.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

In Torch Song I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure which also colors how you react to doing other things.

The only guide to man is his conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield however the fates may play we march always in the ranks of honor.

At best spiritual voices help us replace madness with clarity & violence, with compassion and peace. But we will live up to the promise only if we overcome the temptation to promote our own narrow comfort and individual peace of mind. If we fail this challenge we will not get a spiritual "new age" but a spiritual dead end.