Don’t embrace mediocrity; its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off… Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey!

Peter denied Jesus; Judas betrayed Jesus. The bad news was that both of them fell off the track and were both filled with regrets, remorse and anguish for their mischievous behaviours. However it was only...

In the university of life, failure births experience

The fact that hackers could have accessed data on up to 40 million accounts because of a processor’s failure to follow your own established rules makes me question the effectiveness and ability of self-regulation by...

You can’t always get it right, if you fail, and it will happen, accept it, jump back on and try again

I don’t want to put a deadline on it, because you never know, you set yourself up for failure. But I’m very optimistic.

Failure fear people who pursue success, cause their bravery to become successful is far more than failure to understand.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

We can become fearless as we let go off our grasp on the fear of failure, because failure too is a perception rather than a reality.

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

Failure is the sourness that makes success All the more sweeter.

Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “Failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded — your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself.”[Speech at CIA Headquarters, November 28, 1961]

If you employed a strategy that is not conducive to the results you are looking for, then you will not achieve the desired result. You have to understand that it’s not you that failed; it’s...

The fear of failure is a liability.

I prefer to be the first to be wrong than to be the last to be right

The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early; they don’t understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts.

The future vibrated with uncertainty. I had failed. I had ignorance. I had hope.

It’s a new day. Yesterday’s failure is redeemed at the sunrise

Appeal. Guy’s like you get all excited about the appeal. Don’t you see that I view the very existence of an appeal as a disastrous failure? No much worse, a personal affront of the highest...

There is treasure hidden beneath the entire land, but the problem is people are unwilling to dig it out.

…at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It’s only...

You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you...

Comparing what we’re looking for misses the point. It’s wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we’re going out the way we came in. That’s why you can’t believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe...

Failure is not an end-point, but amendment to suit your success

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to...

I don’t put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

If a person’s life objective has been endorsed by his inner call, then he is bound to repeatedly fail and fall for he is scaling up the wall which is very tall and that’s not...

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information–these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up...

And there it is again, the look. There’s no doubt about it, if Sylvie had a receipt, she would have taken him back by now; this one’s gone wrong. It’s not what I wanted.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Recognize your failures when they happen but don’t dwell on them. Instead, focus on the successes you have had in your life. If you’ve done it once, you can do it again. Build on that....

You are your own cannoe and you are your own paddle, so paddle your own cannoe. Society had taught us to give away our power and abilities by making us to believe that other people...

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him...

Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about...

She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. She should be above it; she should shrug it off as the ranting of a village...

The taxpayer is footing the bill for his failure to reform the public services, and Gordon Brown’s lack of fiscal responsibility will damage our ability to compete in the new global economy.

Don’t waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Success is seasonal.

A can’t in a can—it’s carbonated failure that’s ready to drink. It tastes like the back half of love.

Ce qui commence par : “Je me h tais de déplaire exprès, par crainte de déplaire naturellement” (Mauriac) continue par : “Je me h tais d’échouer exprès,par crainte d’échouer naturellement”, et pourrait se terminer un...

Everyone at some point in life have faced rejection and failure, it is part of the process to self realisation.

I would walk the way and accept the risks I have counted, rather accepting my failure.

You will conquer every mountain.

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed. You can never succeed of you have not failed.