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"Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces." »Joseph Sugarman
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"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
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"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
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"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.
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"“The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery."" »Steve Maraboli
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"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability." »Flower A. Newhouse
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"A failure is not one who fails, a failure is one who blames others for their own failure." »Anthony Girit
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"Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well." »A Bartlett Giamatti
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"Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success." »Denis Watley
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"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does" »Richard Exely
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"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
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"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." »Winston Churchill
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"The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure." »Gerald N. Weiskott
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"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome." »Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
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"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy." »Susan Polis Schutz
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"The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy." »Sir B. Brodie
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"The only real failure in life is the failure to try." »Unknown
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." »David Brin, on power and corruption
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." »David Brin
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"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
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"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life." »Brigham Young
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"Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us." »John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.
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"The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us." »John F. Kennedy
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"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"The forces of the power Cycles work over time to distributes the power and wealth among nations. Every nation and every political party must go through the cycles of expansion and contraction. This is true for all past, current and future powers. The only difference is that this power cycle got accelerated tremendously with the introduction of the Internet and global communications." »Med Jones
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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow. And since the only real freedom a person has is the choice of what thoughts he will feed to his Inner-Consciousness he is totally responsible for the outcomes he gets." »Sidney Madwed
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"Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice." »Ayn Rand
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