Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit. – Napolean Hill
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. – John Keats
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. – Shahrukh Khan
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. – Gary Ryan Blair
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. – Eric Hoffer
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. – Henry Kravis
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. – Mason Cooley
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. – Erik Erikson
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. – Eric Hoffer
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. – Tennessee Williams
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. – Bodhidharma
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. – J. K. Rowling
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. – Charles Kettering
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure. – Mike Krzyzewski
Failure has gone to his head. – Wilson Mizner
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. – Susan Sontag
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. – Edward Abbey
