I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.
My father was not a failure. After all he was the father of a president of the United States.
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?
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
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.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
The man who has done his level best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Like success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
In order to succeed your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Think twice before you speak because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Success is not final failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.