Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Success vs failure | Maxwell Maltz
People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.
Daniel Goleman | Optimism vs pessimism
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.
John Keats | Failure, Experience
A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed – I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau – Failure
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot – Fear, Failure
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot – Failure
When you temporarily run aground, remember that there are no failures in life. There are only results. Consider the adage: Success is the result of good judgment, good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment.
Anthony Robbins – Failures & results
People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you’ll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.
Anthony Robbins – Frustration, Goal, Failure
I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Anthony Robbins – Failure
You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure
Eckhart Tolle – Failure
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson – Failure
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Alva Edison – Failure, Discouragement
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Alva Edison – Restlessness, Failure
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Alva Edison – Failure, Life
There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
