c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable.
— Alison Levine, On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership
When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.
— Dean Cavanagh
I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.
— Ryan Lilly
Foe unvanquished, I will not perish in the field; I will be born again to take up the halberd seven more times.
— Kuribayashi Tadamichi
Failures or successes are not as important as the willingness to risk.
— Darryl Webb
Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success.
— David P. Ingerson
The Road to success is a pattern that mirrors your behavior for the next halfway
— Jinzo Sloatch
Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.
— Savas Dimopoulos
DBT's catchphrase of developing a life worth living means you're not just surviving; rather, you have good reasons for living. I'm also getting better at keeping another dialectic in mind: On the one hand, the disorder decimates all relationships and social functions, so you're basically wandering in the wasteland of your own failure, and yet you have to keep walking through it, gathering the small bits of life that can eventually go into creating a life worth living. To be in the desolate badlands while envisioning the lush tropics without being totally triggered again isn't easy, especially when life seems so effortless for everyone else.
— Kiera Van Gelder, The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating
I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.
— Thomas Jefferson
If you were to believe that you would've never have tried anything new
—  when you don't you will only master failure.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
— George S. Patton Jr.
Let your experience be not one of failure but one that has taught you new things which you would not have known had you not tried
— Epiphana Lewis
From a very early age, the message is drilled into our heads: Failure is bad; failure means you didn’t study or prepare; failure means you slacked off or—worse!—aren’t smart enough to begin with. Thus, failure is something to be ashamed of.
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure—to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn’t strike terror into your employees’ hearts.
— Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
We don't have to always win,Sometimes we need to be deprived by others to improve ourselves.
— Grace
What's knocking on your door...opportunities to succeed or opportunities to fail? Times may get tough, life may not be fair, but never allow fleeting disappointments to corrupt your attitude and your plans for the future. Self-pity is a destructive force that will eat away at every opportunity for success. If your determination to succeed is where it needs to be...failure never makes it to your doorstep. ~Jason Versey
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
Success doesn’t happen overnight and neither does failure. Both are byproducts of personal choices and conscious decisions we make on a daily basis. The truth is…when it comes to our relationships, our occupations and spiritual lives, we alone determine whether we fail or succeed by what we repeatedly do.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
Failures are experiences that help you learn
— Dave Shepp
On hindsight every failure is the best medicine, bitter but effective
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends.
— It's a Wonderful Life
a hundred failures mean a thousand successes
— Ady Mifarizki
I've failed in communication...and so I've learned to have open and honest dialogue at the opportune, and appropriate time.I've failed in relationships...and so I've learned to appreciate the people in my life, and to treat them with kindness.I've failed in paying bills...and so I've learned to properly and effectively manage my time, my talent and my resources.I've failed in work or business ventures...and so I've learned to be more prudent with planning, and more efficient in execution.I've failed in dodging a ball...and so I've learned to anticipate danger and to protect myself.Live, Love, Learn, and Be Well.
— Katrena Patterson
...no matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.
— Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Don't let success lead to arrogance and failure lead to criticism.
— Arlin Sailesh Kapadia
As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
I've failed in communication...and so I've learned to have open and honest dialogue at the opportune, and appropriate time.I've failed in relationships...and so I've learned to appreciate the people in my life, and to treat them with kindness.I've failed in paying bills...and so I've learned to properly and effectively manage my time, my talent and my resources.I've failed in work or business ventures...and so I've learned to be more prudent with planning, and more efficient in execution.I've failed in dodging a ball...and so I've learned to anticipate danger and to protect myself.I don't mind acknowledging my failures, because they've played a valuable part to my successes.Live, Love, Learn, and Be Well.
— Katrena Patterson
Okay, we didn’t work, and allmemories to tell you the truth aren’t good.But sometimes there were good times.Love was good. I loved your crooked sleepbeside me and never dreamed afraid.There should be stars for great warslike ours.
— Sandra Cisneros
But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.
— Lauren Oliver, Panic
When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge utterly and may lead in the end to heaven and to hell. Only later one sees how much and how awfully the fates differ. Yet what were the reasons for the choice? They may have been forgotten. Did one know what one was choosing? Certainly not.
— Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
— Eiji Yoshikawa, Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.
— Tim Fargo
It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling my
— John F. Kennedy
Humans are really stupid. If we don't fall and get hurt, we won't learn our lesson. Just like a kid repeatedly falling.No matter how many times we fail, or how many times we've fallen. Humans will stand once again, smiling ruefully at our grazed knees before continuing onwards. This time we will not run from our pain.
— Yuuri Eda, 恋とは呼べない 3 [Koi to wa Yobenai 3]
I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
— George S. Patton Jr.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
— A. Whitney Brown
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
— Colin Powell
No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I was dismissed from that station by the failure of my election.
— John Quincy Adams
There is treasure hidden beneath the entire land, but the problem is people are unwilling to dig it out.
— Waqar Masood
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. Letting thoughts of past failures creep into your mindset are nothing but dream killing distractions.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
To be defeated is only a fable in which one may tell of oneself. I will try and I will try again, though never shall I call it failure. I am simply one step closer to thy truth.
— Tania Elizabeth, The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Mirrors Shadow
The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.
— Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day.
— Noel DeJesus
Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure
— Dean Cavanagh
The idea of practicing love is deeply appealing to me, because built right in is an acceptance of imperfection. There is an acknowledgment to myself that I am going to mess this up, an understanding that there is room to grow. Each of my failures just affirms the truth that we are all starting over and rising again.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.
— Luther Burbank
Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.
— Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord
Dreams aren't only an illusion to put you into a subconsciously pleasurable state of mind for the time being, but also a pathway to gain complete contentment.
— Mehek Bassi
Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.
— K.P. Yohannan, When We Have Failed-What Next?: God's Answer to Our Failures
Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.
— Nabil N. Jamal
Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.
— Noel DeJesus
God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path.
— Jim George
When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at archery or at singlestick. We do get some nice compliments on our disguises, but no more than that.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
failure is normal expression of an action's re-action. learning is secondary in this process .it is only prime to recognize true capacity within ourselves.it is a tool to transform the same person in new one with new value and outlook towards the same old world.
— ratna m.munshi
Get out of failure-o-phobia to enjoy success-o-mania.
— Prerak Trivedi
Without knowing failure how can we know success?
— Nabil N. Jamal
Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".
— Murad S. Shah
The Fed’s policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time.
— Amit Kalantri
Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure
—  within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve.
There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything...and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it!...anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.
— Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, How to Write High Quality Articles In Half the Time
The worst outcome of not trying is never getting to fail.
— Phillip Gary Smith, HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life
She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.
— Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
We'll all be failures?""Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Failure Is Not Permanent, So Is The Success. So, Don't Look Down Upon People Who Are Failed While You're Succeeded. Table Can Turn Anytime. Be Gentle To Every Creation, It Ain't Cost A Thing....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.
— Noel DeJesus
Ian pretended that not knowing what to do was the hard part when, somewhere inside, I think he knew that making a choice about something is when the real uncertainty begins. The more terrifying uncertainty is wanting something and not knowing how to get it. It is working toward something even though there is no sure thing. When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier not to know, not to choose, and not to do.
— Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
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 just that you employed the wrong strategy.
— Julian Pencilliah, The Jetstream of Success
The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.
— Ernst Alexanderson
These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines difficult to decipher, while my mates are drinking with glee.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
There is no greater failure than success through wrong means
— Nicholas C. Rossis, Rise of the Prince
Colin "I'm just--I'm just a failure. what if this is it? -----andI never do anything significant and I'm just a complete waste?"Hassan sat up, with his hands on his knees. "See, this is why you need to believe in God.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
When you get used to being let down, you will never be ashamed of failure.
— Uzoma Nnadi
You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
— Kazu Kibuishi, The Last Council
Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever.
— Amit Kalantri
Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don’t let it devour you.
— Michelle Sagara, Cast in Shadow
If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
— L.R. Knost
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
— Seth Godin
Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.
— Amit Kalantri
Overcast does not always forecast rain neither does difficulty always forecast failure.
— Kevin A. McKoy
Stagnation floods the mind with thoughts of failure and slowly drowns the will to succeed
—  always move forward.
Failure is successful when you fail.
— Munia Khan
After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Failure is a fatality that carves the road to success.
— Arlin Sailesh Kapadia
If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don’t stop!
— Noel DeJesus, 44 Days of Leadership
Failure fear people who pursue success, cause their bravery to become successful is far more than failure to understand.
— Festus adeoye
FINAO. My word for my companies. Failure Is Not An Option.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes.
— June Hunt, Success Through Failure
Don't live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt.
— Amit Kalantri
There are times in our lives when we labor so hard, for so long, that it may feel that we have nothing to show for it. That we have failed. We get discouraged, because we don’t achieve what we yearned for or anticipated.But a lack of desired results doesn’t mean we failed…it means we have locked our sights on the end result, instead of focusing on the process itself.No one can guarantee your success.What you can do, however, is consistently act—progressing towards your goals, so that your chances of success grows exponentially with each step you take.
— Jaime Buckley, The Truth About Lies
Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A fear of losing, of failure is a fear of success.
— T Jay Taylor
Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?
— Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
— Robert Browning
Giving up doesn't make you a quiter, a loser or a failure.It makes you wise enough to stop holding on to what refuses to be held.Hence i say, letting go hurts,but holding on to what is no longer therehurts even more.
— Nomthandazo Tsembeni
When I rise uplet me rise up joyfullike a bird.When I falllet me fall without regretlike a leaf.
— Wendell Berry
You haven't failed until you stop trying.
— Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gone before those heroes, about whether they'd been at each other's throats, before everything had gone wrong. He wondered if there was a point where they realized they weren't going to make it, weren't going to beat those long odds--that in the legend that would follow, they were going to be the nameless people that failed.
— Holly Black, Doll Bones
Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch.
— Tyler Hojberg
I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]
— Gail Borden
When we confuse the needs with the desires
—  all the struggles we take lead to failure and disappointment.
If you don't keep moving forward, you'll always be in the same place.
— Lillielyse Monsel
What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called failure.
— Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats
Failure is when you accept it, otherwise it's just another obstacle.
— Krishna Saagar
Turn a major mistake into a master mentor, learn from it.
— Stella Payton, A Word in Season: A Daily Devotional
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 can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.
— Richard Paul Evans, The Four Doors
Everything has a finsh line. You just have to keep moving forward until you cross it.
— Lillielyse Monsel
Failure is not able to have what you planned for, you planning for 'F' and having 'A' is a failure. Success is having what you do expect or planned, having 'F' when you planned for it is a success. Miracle is having a success you dont planned for, it breaks the law.
— adelaja precious
A retreat from someone or something isn't unusual. Just as how you edge closer to see better, at times you may need to take a step back to get a clearer view.
— rajuda
Success comes to those who are aware of failure but are success conscious
— Seyi Ayoola
I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.
— Dave Donovan, The Gift
Analyse it
—  chance of getting succeed are always greater than failure
The habit of giving up when the present task is half ﬁnished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
— Christian D. Larson
Don’t ever perceive other people’s success as your own failure.
— Rob Liano
There is only one reason of YOUR failure..'You
— Himmilicious
There is nothing wrong with being wrong.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Ignore failure. Try anew until you succeed.
— Tim Fargo, Alphabet Success - Keeping it Simple
Forget seizing the moment. Seize the opportunity.
— Tim Fargo
We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.
— Roddy Doyle
Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
Shouldering the blame for failure and conferring credit where it is due comes rarely to most.
— Andy Paula
Every time we cheer the downfall of a powerful woman, we're giving ourselves the message that power is bad and we shouldn't desire it. Every time we revel in a beautiful woman's aging or weight gain, we reinforce the idea that we, too, are less valuable if we are old or overweight. Every time we gloat over a woman's loss of a husband to a younger, prettier rival, we are reminding ourselves that our own relationship is unstable, that someday our man, too, will move on to greener pastures.
— Susan Shapiro Barash, Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women and Rivalry
The fear of failure is a liability.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
Risky is not the same as crazy. Failing is not the same as being worthless.
— Alyson Hagy, Boleto
If you're afraid to fail you'll never succeed
— NightBits
The reason God never fails is because he fears to fail
— adelaja precious
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
— Samuel McChord Crothers
In every failure, there's the seed to even greater success. However, people waste their time complaining, instead of looking for the seed among the rubble of what was.
— Mauricio Chaves Mesén, 12 Laws of Great Entrepreneurs
My friend Richard Carrion, the CEO of Puerto Rico’s top bank, once shared a line with me that I’ll never forget: “Robin, nothing fails like success.” Powerful thought. Your business is most vulnerable when it’s most successful. Success actually breeds complacency, inefficiency and – worst of all – arrogance. Whenever I share this point with a roomful of CEOs, every one of them nods their head at this one. Please let me give you a real-world example from my own life.
— Robin S. Sharma
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
— Anthony Liccione
Trying is the first step towards failure
— Homer Simpson
Because human nature never changes.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow
What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
One of Obama’s greatest failures will be his legacy of making millions completely dependent on government handouts, not work....So sad.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened?
— Israelmore Ayivor
A son is an unfulfilled man’s last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure.
— George W. Bush, Decision Points
Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
You’re thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. Failure is a teacher – a harsh one, perhaps, but the best. You say you have a desk full of rejected manuscripts? That’s great! Every one of those manuscripts was rejected for a reason. Have you pulled them to pieces looking for that reason? You’ve got to put failure to work for you. That’s where you’ll find success. On the far side of failure.
— Arthur Gordon, A Touch of Wonder
A worthy failure is more valuable than a mediocre success.
— Kuo Pao Kun
To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Miracles' rely on their observer’s ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer’s failure to notice the observed’s defects.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status
— Nathanael Kanyinga
Success is seasonal.
— Jayme K., David Bowie is Dead
A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don’t try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable.
— Robert Greene, Mastery
By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs.
— Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
Eyes narrowed, Judd stared at the structure as if at a mortal enemy. Slapping his fellow lieutenant on the shoulder, Riaz said, "Don't even think about it." A pissed-off telekinetic versus the complex metal pylons and tubes of the jungle gym- the results would not be pretty.Judd glanced at his watch. "I'll destroy it later.
— Nalini Singh, Tangle of Need
And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
— Jeff Lindsay, Dexter By Design
I am not writing this book for people below the age of 18, but I see no harm in telling young people to prepare for failure rather than success, since failure is the main thing that is going to happen to them.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing study and remain in his corrupt memory. It is like the insult of a corpse on the road by a war photographer.
— Manu Joseph, The Illicit Happiness of Other People
We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure
Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.
— Craig Benzine
It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.""Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight.""That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Borders of Infinity
In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The definition of brilliance is redoing failures different each time and expecting successful results.
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
— Jeanette Winterson
Monsieur Josserand died very quietly - a victim of his own honesty. He had lived a useless life, and he went off, worthy to the last, weary of all the petty things in life, done to death by the heartless conduct of the only human beings that he had ever loved.
— Émile Zola, Pot Luck
I would walk the way and accept the risks I have counted, rather accepting my failure.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I see Jenna, smiling, chattering. And failing. When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?
— Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.
— Israelmore Ayivor
True success is not measured by how much you have achieved but by how many times you've failed
— Brian Leslie
Her cowardice had been re-branded as self-preservation, and she was grateful for it.
— Jayne Lockwood, The Cloud Seeker
There is no excuse for your failure
—  accept it and try again.
Failure is an opportunity.If you blame someone else,there is no end to the blame.Therefore the Masterfulfills her own obligationsand corrects her own mistakes.She does what she needs to doand demands nothing of others.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting silently on tap. It is self-manufactured painstakingly over time by working through your problems and never giving up, even in the face of difficulty or failure.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.
— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
I saw Dad's eyes widen just a fraction when he heard my voice catch. He glanced at me but quickly turned away. He didn't want me to see his reaction, but I did, and I'll never forget it. In that brief glimpse, I could see what he was thinking behind that fixed stare. There would be no grandkids, there would be no more Creed family bloodline, nothing else to look forward to. From that point on I'd become the last, most devastating disappointment in what he thought his life had added up to--one overwhelming failure.
— Perry Moore, Hero
Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners . . . their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated.
— William Manchee, Go Broke, Die Rich: Turning Around the Troubled Small Business
The moment you believe you will fail, you have already lost the battle.
— Bianca Frazier, Speaking Success Into Existence: Public Speaking Workbook
Think in terms of opportunities and solutions instead of problems, disappointment, and failure.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Fear of failure prevents you from realising your dreams of success.
— Habeeb Akande
There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.
— William Manchee, Go Broke, Die Rich: Turning Around the Troubled Small Business
The innovator's motto is this
—  I succeed or I learn but I never fail.
If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed. You can never succeed of you have not failed.
— Joban Singh Bal
Failure is our greatest teacherBlame blinds us to her lessons
— Rick Julian
The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure.""So what, it's stupid to even try?""No. It's unwise to hope."- Something Like Stardust
— Genevieve Ross
If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed.
— Joban Singh Bal
Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.
— Anita Diamant, Good Harbor
A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and I came up, unprompted, with the perfect title. Octet. Octet by Logan Mountstuart. Perhaps I will surprise them all, yet.
— William  Boyd, Any Human Heart
If you give up, you reward failure.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
The road of life is paved with daily successes, a great number of them penny and nickle triumphs. Sadly, these little feats are often seen as worthless―even failures―because we dream of greater gain. Our greed keeps us focused on a gleaming pot of gold waiting at the end of some elusive rainbow. And, despairing a big loss, we fail to see the value in small achievements.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he had failed and because he had no choice but to accept the world’s terms: there is no mystery here. This was not insanity, but common sense.
— Raymond Weaver, The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville: Benito Cereno/Bartleby the Scrivener/The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles/Billy Budd, Foretopman
The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up.
— Habeeb Akande
Fail often and fail cheap.
— Paul Sloane
No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Rejection isn't failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up.
— Richard Castle
Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.
— Neil Gaiman
Sometimes…	Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith.	Sometimes weakness is the opposite of strength, but sometimes weakness can be the pathway to strength.	Sometimes addiction is the opposite of sobriety, but sometimes addiction can be the pathway to sobriety.	Sometimes infidelity is the opposite of fidelity, but sometimes infidelity can be a pathway to fidelity.	Sometimes failure is the opposite of success, but sometimes failure can be the pathway to success.
— David W. Jones, Enough: And Other Magic Words to Transform Your Life
When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.
— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise
— Todd Stocker, Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter
I’ve witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to be. I can say, with a truth that needs no flowers to show it’s dead, that there’s nothing I’ve wanted - and nothing in which I’ve placed, even for a moment, the dream of only that moment - that hasn’t disintegrated below my windows like a clod of dirt that resembled stone until it fell from a flowerpot on a high balcony. It would even seem that Fate has always tried to make me love or want things just so that it could show me, on the very next day, that I didn’t have and could never have them.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.
— Amelia E. Barr
Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity
— Arthur Nersesian, Dogrun
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview(Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
— Ray Bradbury
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than you will from just stepping up to the plate and, as we say in Australia, giving it a bloody go!
— Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!
There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it.
— Benjamin Bayani, The Nation
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
— Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
What was meaningful? What was meaningless? What did it mean, to amount to something? What type of life, was worth living? Was it better, to make a ton of money, and have a fucking goddamn Mercedes, or whatever the fuck kind of car it was, to be a lawyer with a ‘serious’ job, and to have ‘amounted to something,’ or was it better to just be a waiter, and work the evening shift, and have your days free to goof off with your roommates, your friends, to go to meditation, to take some time to reflect, and enjoy life, and to not always be in such a big goddamn rush to get somewhere?
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or temerarious and rushed unwisely in; and how every day and all day long we have transgressed the law of kindness; -it may seem a paradox, but in the bitterness of these discoveries, a certain consolation resides. Life is not designed to minister to a man's vanity. He goes upon his long business most of the time with a hanging head, and all the time like a blind child. Full of rewards and pleasures as it is - so that to see the day break or the moon rise, or to meet a friend, or to hear the dinner-call when he is hungry, fills him with surprising joys - this world is yet for him no abiding city. Friendships fall through, health fails, weariness assails him; year after year, he must thumb the hardly varying record of his own weakness and folly. It is a friendly process of detachment. When the time comes that he should go, there need be few illusions left about himself. Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: -surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, A Christmas Sermon
Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail.
— Alain de Botton
Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.
— Wayde Goodall, Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All
I am a man that knows of the possibility of failure. I have suffered defeat. I have created miscalculations. I have even abandoned victory, and fallen in shame. I can claim my arrogance. I can claim my ignorance. I can claim my naiveté. However, the creation of those possibilities were simply due to a lack of understanding of who I was. I have conquered my Id. I have conquered my Ego. I have conquered my Spirituality. I am a man that knows of the possibility of failure, but because I have mastered the principles of nothing, possibility, and uncertainty, failure simply tags along with me, unable to grasp my glory.
— Lionel Suggs
The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.
— Wayde Goodall, Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All
I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.
— Richard Paul Evans, Lost December
Failure = STOP of trials
— أحمد عمارة
The future vibrated with uncertainty. I had failed. I had ignorance. I had hope.
— Sean Ferrell, Man in the Empty Suit
The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.
— Wayde Goodall, Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All
Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.
— Richard Appignanesi, Yukio Mishima's Report To The Emperor
Behind a great success, there was a great failure
— Michael Hermanto
So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.
— Habeeb Akande
It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.
— Silvia Hartmann, Sorcerer and Apprentice
Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
I got a rock.
— Charlie Brown
We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.
— Richard M. Nixon
I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.
— Steve Jobs
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
— Voltaire
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 share my 
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Stories
The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.
— Caroline Knapp
For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls.
— Antony John, Five Flavors of Dumb
There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.
— Orrin Woodward
I'm all alone,fuming at myself,waving a great flagof failure.
— Emma Cameron, Cinnamon Rain
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
— Alan J. Perlis
Failure is necessary to succeed and will become your biggest blessing.
— Lynn Bardowski, Success Secrets of a Million Dollar Party Girl
Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all.Life isn't like that.Not every hero can stay valiant. Sometimes, they can't even stay a hero, so what does that make them? A failure? A pussy? A total failure jerkwad with no hope on the horizon save finding a cemetery and digging rectangles in the ground for the town drunk?
— Susan Vaught, Going Underground
Sooner or later, the man who learnt lessons from his failures will be the one to be sought first for guidance, counsel and formula on how to be successful in life's endeavours.
— Ogwo David Emenike, The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better.
— Ogwo David Emenike, The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again
—  forever.
Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.
— Ogwo David Emenike, The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes.
— Paul Kelly
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 order for which I blame you.
— Sergio de la Pava, A Naked Singularity
Those who don't try are destine for failure
— Westley Tusa
A mistake of one man is not the mistake of mankind.
— Kim Panti
It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. (...) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.
— David Millar, Racing Through the Dark
Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, a kiss too longAnd there follows a mist and a weeping rainAnd life is never the same again
— George MacDonald, Phantastes
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.
— Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.
— John Burroughs