Success depends upon previous preparation and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently.

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

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy or any of your time or any of your space.

I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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

In order to succeed your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First if you do fail you learn what doesn't work and second the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself I have failed three times and what happens when he says I am a failure.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

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

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

You always pass failure on your way to success.