Face the failure, until the failure fails to face you.

As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it’s just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

But all actors go through the process, it’s hit and miss, you have achievement and failure

You have to fail, man, but you cannot allow failure to stop you from doing what you must do. Failing is just as good as succeeding in a lot of ways. It’s how you react to it all. You can react to success the wrong way and be a total failure. Or you can react to losing with your whole heart, learn from it, and be a huge success. In stand-up, I’ve learned to know when I’m burning it up or when I’m being so-so. That’s experience. I learn every single time I’m on a stage.

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

The Tea Party people say they’re angry about socialism, but maybe they’re really angry about capitalism. If there’s a sense of being looked down upon, it’s that sense of failure that’s built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band’s creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.

When you don’t win, you get called a failure.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

I was never afraid of failure. I always saw it as an opportunity to learn and grow.

The best baseball players are those who can handle success and failure with equal grace

Baseball is a mirror of life, reflecting our triumphs and failures.

Nobody wants to lose game.

I don’t take success or failure personally. It’s just part of the game.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything

The New World failures may have been greater, the disasters more excessive, the consequences more brutal, but there’s a bounce in every fall, a spit on the palm’s new start for every setback

We need big failures in order to move the needle. If we don’t, we’re not swinging enough. You really should be swinging hard, and you will fail, but that’s okay

So many out there place an undue burden on themselves to succeed at something, whatever it might be, and then if they fail, grow seeds of resentment and hate toward that failure and, as a result, themselves, and in many cases, project that resentment and hatred onto others.

If your life doesn’t end in failure, you haven’t reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it’s not a natural drive – it’s born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

There was a lot of pain, and a lot of disappointment. I felt like I was not only disappointing myself and my spouse, but all the people who’d hung a lot of hope on us. I felt like a complete loser and failure.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work

Success is not the absence of failure, but the ability to bounce back from it.

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

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Don’t be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying.

Never let success get to your head or failure get to your heart.

Failure is not the end, but an opportunity for growth and self-reflection.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it’s the courage to continue that counts.

Failure is just an opportunity to learn and grow.

Failure is a stepping stone towards success. Learn from your mistakes and keep pushing forward.

If you fall during your life it doesn’t matter because you’re never a failure if you try to get up

I’ve always lived by the creed that you’re never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.

You learn more in failure than you ever do in success.

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It’s simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life are failure and age, and those are one and the same.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Failure is painful when your opponent is laughing, but there is a pride in facing defeat without running away.

God has never made a failure. The work from first to last is glorious.

Workers for Christ are never to think, much less to speak, of failure in their work. The Lord Jesus is our efficiency in all things; His Spirit is to be our inspiration; and as we place ourselves in His hands, to be channels of light, our means of doing good will never be exhausted. We may draw upon His fulness, and receive of that grace which has no limit.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

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

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.

Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply avoid failure. It is based on your ability to overcome it.

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he’s full of crap.

Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.

It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.

If you’re not a target, you’re a failure.

Failure isn’t falling down. Failure is not getting up after you have fallen down.

Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision

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

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.

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Success is my only option, failure’s not.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Fear of failure leads to failure.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

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?

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges.

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

It is foolish to turn off a tried friend because of a failing or two, for you may get rid of a one-eyed nag and buy a blind one.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss and failure into success.

There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.

When There Is Fear of Failure, There Will Be Failure.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

I failed to communicate, that’s why I chose to leave

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there’s no success like failure

If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail… failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives. For if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Look for small victories and build on that. Each small victory, even if it is just getting up five minutes earlier, gives you confidence. You realize that these little victories make you feel great, and you keep going. You realize that being paralyzed by fear of failure is worse than failure.

Have a vision, trust yourself, break some rules, ignore the naysayers, don’t be afraid to fail.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

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

You will be wounded many times in your life. You’ll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God’s way of saying, “Excuse me, you’re moving in the wrong direction.” It’s just an experience, just an experience.

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success

Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

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

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

You learn more from finishing a failure than you do from writing a success.

Don’t let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door – if we seek it.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

In order to do something you’ve never done, you’ve got to become someone you’ve never been. I think that all of us have great potential within us, but greatness is a choice; it’s not our destiny. And in the pursuit of our dreams we are introduced to trials, failures and disappointments , which take us to the door of discovery and greatness.

If you want to grow and develop yourself, embrace failure. If you want to become the best at what you do, you’ve got to be willing to fail, again and again. And then finally, one day, you can fail your way to greatness.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

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

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

If you fail to plant desires in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts that reach it as the result of your neglect.

The majority of people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The dividing line between success and failure is found at the stage where aimless drifting ceases.

Where failure is experienced, it is the individual, not the method, which has failed. If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another, until you succeed.

Faith is the only known antidote to failure

Success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure

That’s one of my biggest obstacles. I’m afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

Never let failure take control of you.

My logisticians are a humorless lot … they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Every person, according to an ancient legend, is born into the world with two bags suspended from their neck: all bags in front full of their neighbors’ faults, and a large bag behind filled with his own faults. Hence it is that people are quick to see the faults of others, and yet are often blind to their own failings

I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.

It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that count

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

If you want to be successful, respect one rule. Never let failure take control of you.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don’t want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.