99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Failure is an event not a person

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

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.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

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.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It s courage that counts.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!