The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Failure is not fatal until we surrender trying again is the key of glorious victory.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
“I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.