The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Morihei Ueshiba

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
James A. Baldwin

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart

My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin

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

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell

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

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. Schuller

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler