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.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

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.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner then he is.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

In all our deeds the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not at one time or other find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed try try again. If at first you succeed then what?

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.

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.

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

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.