There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
However things may seem no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Every adversity every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
If Liberia has failed then it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
War remains the decisive human failure.
I have a lack of fear whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway I have great expectations for the future but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
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.
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success politically as well as spiritually and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time but for a line be that sublime. Not failure but low aim is crime.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
My fault my failure is not in the passions I have but in my lack of control of them.
Failure is a great teacher and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences then you've got something to share.
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.
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have might have and should have.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa Asia and Latin America?
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive of course but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.