The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
~ Benjamin E. Mays
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.
~ Henry Rollins
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.
~ Theresa May
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
~ Christopher Morley
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
~ John C. Maxwell
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
~ Shah Rukh Khan
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
~ Anne Baxter
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.
~ David S. Rose
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
~ Tom Cochrane
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus.
~ Mike Yaconelli
If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.
~ Evel Knievel
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
~ Napoleon Hill
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
~ Louis E. Boone
Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.
~ Pawan Kalyan
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
~ William Feather
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
~ Malcolm Mclaren
My life has been nothing but a failure.
~ Claude Monet
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
~ Gustav Mahler
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
~ Joe Biden
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.
~ Les Brown
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
~ Maude Adams
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
~ Jeff Tweedy
I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
~ Leann Rimes
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
~ Og Mandino
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
~ Lucille Ball
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
~ George Eliot
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
~ Ann Cotton
I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
~ Ranbir Kapoor
Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
~ Neal Boortz
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
~ Anthony J. D'angelo
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
~ Dee Dee Myers
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
~ Jonah Hill
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.
~ Michael Savage
I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.
~ Rick Santelli
So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.
~ Keyshawn Johnson
