Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

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

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

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 happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

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

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

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.

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

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

For my first show at SNL, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, Okay, that happened, and I did not die. You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

It's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

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

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

If you don't try at anything, you can't fail it takes back bone to lead the life you want

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.