I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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.
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?
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
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.