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....

In most cases, failure is not determined by the obstacles we face, but by how we approach them and what our perceptions whisper to when on encountering eventualities.

In a good economy, people work hard to succeed. In a bad economy, people work hard to not fail.

A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!

Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you; they will show you the wrong path. Being a pessimist is a failure plan uncompleted.

Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions.

Portfolio management teams are doomed to failure without adequate support from senior executives. Internal struggles will plague portfolio management groups until their corporate cultures accept their strategic value.

When a Truthsayer’s gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory – in her body’s memory. We look down so many avenues of the past… but only feminine avenues… Yet there’s...

Haters hate that’s what they do. Gossiper’s gossip. Doers do. Talkers talk. Workers work. Lovers love. Singers sing, worshipers worship. Fighters fight, winners win. Believers believe that’s what they do.Just find out what are you....

We don’t have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

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.

If you’re afraid to fail you’ll never succeed

While this is a not food safety issue, this is a unacceptable failure on our part to meet the requirements of our agreements with trading partner Japan. As I said, we take this matter very...

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

These devices are quite costly, and they are complex, so they tend to be prone to failure. So far, nobody has figured how to make them at a low enough cost so that the average...

And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.

Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.