Failure isn't a percentage or a test. It's not a single event. It's a process.
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
No one can conclude that he has failed until he breathes his last breath. Until then, he is still in process, and the jury is still out.
You are the only person who can really label what you do a failure.
Entrepreneurs recognize that three steps forward and two steps back still equals one step forward.
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders frim one who does.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little mind are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise about them
Tomorrow belongs to the failures.
Errors become mistakes when we perceive them and respond to them incorrectly.
Mistakes become failures when we continually respond them incorrectly.
Failure is not so bad if it doesn't attack the heart . Success is alright if it doesn't go to the head.
Achievers are able to keep moving forward no matter what happens . And that's made possible because they remember that failure doesn't make them failures. No one should take mistakes personally. That's the way to take yourself out of failure.
Tell yourself," I'm not a failure . I failed at doing something." There is a big difference.
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thought.
When achievers fail, they see it as a momentary event , not a lifelong epidemic.
Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward.
You have to feel the fair and take action anyway.
You are more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The only thing that matters is that you face your fear and get moving. Do that, and you give yourself the opportunity to learn how to fail forward
People who stay on the failure freeway don't think that it's their fault
If you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always gotten.
One reaction to failure that keeps people driving on the failure freeway is anger
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim
Don't wast energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's okey to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
Too many people, when they make a mistake, just keep stubbornly plowing ahead and end up repeating the same mistakes. I believe in the motto, "Try and try again." But the way i read it, it says, " Try, then stop and think. Then try again.
Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today
No matter what happens to you, failure is an inside job
A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.
If you think positively and do nothing, you will not be able to fail forward. You must add positive action to a positive attitude.
The key to positive action is to know the difference between a problem and a fact of life.
A problem is something that can be solved. A fact of life is something that must be accepted.
You certainly can't control the length of your life, but you can control its width and depth.
Handicaps can only disable us if we let them. This is true not only of physical challenges, but of emotional and intellectual ones as well... I believe that real and lasting limitations are created in our minds, not our boidies.
One reason god created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.
The problems of people's pasts impact them in one of two ways: They experience either a breakdown or a breakthrough.
People do not have to remain victoms of their pasts.
Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breaktrough.
Failure is the greatest opportunity i have to know who i really am.
We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
All of the significant battles are waged within the self
To have an opportunity to reach your potential, you must know who you are and face your flaw
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we do not like to open a letter that has bad news
Don't get stuk inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want
A failure is a man who blundered, but is not able to cash in in the experience
To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you are not failing, you are probably not really moving forward.
Good people are good because they have come to wisdom through failure. we get very little wisdom from success,you know.
Some of the greatest stories of success can be found in the unexpected benefits of mistakes.
In science,mistakes always precede the truth.
If a bookstore gets your order wrong, figure out whether it is an opportunity to learn a new skill.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
In life, there are no safe places or risk-free activities.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but i do believe in fate that falls on them unless they act.
Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable
Don't wait for all the lights to be green before you leave the house.
There is nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
You risk because you have something of value you want to achieve
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
The things which hurt, instruct.
Your attitude toward failure determines your altitude after failure.
If you're not failing at least five times a day, you're probably not doing enough.
The more you do, the more you fail. The more you you fail, the more you learn, the better you get.
If you live to learn, then you will really learn to live.
A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone trough the fire and been burned.
Adversity is the first path to truth
I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.
Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it.
People change when they...
Hurt enough that they have to,
Larn enough that they want to, and
Receive enough that they are able to.
Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you would rather not.
The most importantsingle ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people
If your circumstances constantly get you down, then maybe it's time for change- not in your situation, but in your attitude.
If you go from task to task to task without making progress, or you can't seem to reach a goal no matter how much effort you give it, examine your focus.
If you are committed, a failure doesn't mean that you'll never succeed. It just means you will take longer. Commitment makes you capable of failing forward until you reach your goals.
If you resist change, you are really resisting success. learn flexibility,or learn to like living with your failures.
The commen denominator of success lies in forming the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.
Self-discipline is a quality that is won through practice
Truly successful people have learned to do what does not come naturally. Real success lies in experiencing fear or aversion and acting in spite of it.
