Thoughts On Failure

Failure

Half the failures of this world in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

The streets of the City of Failure are paved with alibis--some of which are absolutely perfect.

Turn failure into fertilizer and use it to grow!

Failure is an event, never a person.

Failure is the greatest opportunity I have to know who I really am.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play to win.

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Perfection is devastated by failure, while excellence learns from failure.

Failure seldom stops you; what stops you is the fear of failure.

I want to remind you that failure is an event--it is not a person. Yesterday really did end last night. Today is a brand new day. That simply means that you can fail in an event, but by no stretch of imagination does that make you a failure as a person.

The lessons in my life have come from failures, my own shortcomings, naivete and buying into some of the biggest myths modern society has to sell.

Excuses are the language of the failure, and the melody of the mediocre...

The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.