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.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you could just get BETTER. What do you think?

Because when you find something you love, you can’t quit. Every failure pushes you harder. It’s in your soul and in your fucking heart

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.

Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Where other men failed, I was able to unzip her pants. All I did was gently turn the handle. I make love like a locksmith in a room with no doors.

A downfall isn't in any way the end of your journey. Get back up and channel your time, energy, and focus back on the path to the victory line.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)

When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front of your eyes.

If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.

Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try.