No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect I am so well-educated.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21 thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

I was never afraid of failure after that because I think coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years the actual experience of course fades but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

Failure too is a form of death.

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.

Any man who has $10 000 left when he dies is a failure.

My father was not a failure. After all he was the father of a president of the United States.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me that concerns me - I find fault.

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.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas to take a calculated risk and to act.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage his character his self respect or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Success is not final failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Success is never final failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

And every now and then people find the bugs and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt you know.

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term his biggest failure was climate change.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.