| "failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." »Denis Watley |
| "Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure." »Joseph Heller |
| "Would you like me to give you a formula for...success It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're 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 can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side." »Thomas John Watson, Sr. |
| "Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach." »Roger von Oech |
| "Forget about the consequences of failure. failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success." »Denis Watley |
| "Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does" »Richard Exely |
| "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." »Winston Churchill |
| "The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure." »Gerald N. Weiskott |
| "Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid." »John Keats |
| "He's no failure. He's not dead yet." »William Lloyd George |
| "It is as hard to take success as it is failure." »Louise Nevelson |
| "failure is a path, not a destination." »Robert Logan |
| "failure is success if we learn from it." »Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
| "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style." »Quentin Crisp |
| "The origin of every excuse is the failure to do something." »Andy Anderson |
| "Success is never final, but failure can be." »Bill Parcells |
| "Every failure is a step to success..." »William Whewell |
| "You always pass failure on the way to success." »Mickey Rooney |
| "failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." »Moshe Arens |
| "failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital." »Daniel Webster |
| "I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate." »George Burns |
| "Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." »Mike Ditka |
| "Success is never permanent, and failure is never final." »Mike Ditka |
| "failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others." »Jules Renard |
| "failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." »Truman Capote |
| "No man is a failure who is enjoying life." »William Faulkner |
| "It's not failure, but low aim is crime." »Lowell |
| "Falling Doesn't Make You a failure, Staying Down Does." »God's Little Instruction Book |
| "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan." »Unknown |
| "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." »J Danforth Quayle |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
