Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now
Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.
Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
The only risk of failure is promotion.
We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life
Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.
Never permit failure to become a habit.
Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.