I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. – Paulo Coelho
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. – Denis Waitley
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. – Benjamin Disraeli
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better. – Samuel Beckett
Failure is a word unknown to me. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. – Dorthea Brande
Every failure is a step to success. – William Whewell
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. – Robert E. Lee
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. – James Allen
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. – Richard Branson
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide. – James A. Baldwin
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. – Roger Babson
All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure. – Carl Sandburg
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. – Mia Hamm
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. – George Canning
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. – Alexandre Dumas
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. – Bernard Baruch
Success and failure are equally disastrous. – Tennessee Williams
