My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States..

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure..

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations ….

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option..

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life..

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems..

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed..

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them..

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is….

You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the ra….

Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would ….

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 ….

The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a s….

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use..

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us..

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed..

You have to be able to accept failure to get better..

I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal con….

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termi….

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work..