Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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.
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Remembering 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.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.
Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Do 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.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
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