The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Whether in success or in failure I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

But while success and failure depend on conditions the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Success is not a good teacher failure makes you humble.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

However things may seem no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success politically as well as spiritually and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa Asia and Latin America?

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive of course but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner then he is.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

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.