Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd...

If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.

Stay strong. Focus on the ultimate goal.

There were very weak fundamentals before this sell-off. The failure to make above $10 generated a lot of selling.

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how...

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the...

Nearly’ only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.

If you never fail, that means you never tried to do something impossible.

In every way that counted, I failed him.

Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.

Turn a major mistake into a master mentor, learn from it.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

The first purpose of your life is to find the purpose of your life.

The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

Dabaalnimo waxaa ah da’daada kaliya inay isbedesho.

An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).

Not everything you believe that you can achieve, can be achieved but that won’t stop you from trying.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

I think the ghosts of the past, the ghosts of colonial rule, the ghosts of the failure of his government to transform into a democratic government, the same manner that Mandela and others tried to...

The man who has done his level best…is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Stand up for the underdog, the ‘loser.’ Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.

How about another run?

Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

After listening to the tape we found that there was no mention of engine problems or a failure or emergency until the second approach.

And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway

Impatience has ruined many crowns; it had lured people to give up when they have just few minute to win, just few millimeters to touch the winning carpet!

Quitters don’t gain what they have started working on; waiters don’t start what they could have gained. What is common there is failure.

If you don’t figure out your main reason of being born, chances are that, you will fall into another plan which is unlikely to make you to print out your bigger picture!

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back...

They just don’t fear failure. They’ve been through so much. They’re going to play you for 40 minutes and whatever happens, happens.

A downfall isn’t in any way the end of your journey. Get back up and channel your time, energy, and focus back on the path to the victory line.

The only reason I didn’t feel like a complete fool was because the failure left me feeling incomplete.

Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

You can fail many times, but you’re not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

We are strengthening by different experiences in life;Sad times, happy moments.Poverty, riches.Failure, success.Troubles, good times.Losing, winning.

There is always a storm before a calm.There is always a darkness before daylight. There is always turbulence before quietness.There is always sacrifices before a great victory.There is always awaiting before a breakthrough.There is always...

Never waste your energy to dwell on the past failures and mistakes.May you find renewed energy, courage and hope to pursue new adventures.

If your failure is not a lesson, it’s indeed a failure.

As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for...

If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.

Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are...

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.

Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.