If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term his biggest failure was climate change.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else but you have a failure pal and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Well I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.

The man who has done his level best... is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

We are all of us failures at least the best of us are.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

There is only one failure in life possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The only failure one should fear is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still don't win at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.

A failure is not always a mistake it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

If you're doing your best you won't have any time to worry about failure.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history that he redefined the idea of beauty that he combined painting sculpture photography and everyday life with such gall and that he was interested in as he put it 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

In the business world today failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.