Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford

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

- Colin Powell

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

- Michael Korda

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.

- Michael Korda

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

- George Eliot

Flops are a part of life's menu and I'm never a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

- Rosalind Russell

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

- Marie Curie

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

- Zig Ziglar

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

- Marsha Sinetar

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

- Tryon Edwards

In order to hold on to thoughts of anger, bitterness, revenge, guilt, and shame, we have to use a lot of energy.

- Edwene Gaines

Many of us are afraid to follow our passions, to pursue what we want most because it means taking risks and even facing failure. But to pursue your passion with all your heart and soul is success in itself. The greatest failure is to have never really tried.

- Robyn Allen

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

- Madame de Stael

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.

- Voltaire

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

- Beatrix Potter



For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

- Maya Angelou



Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

- John Wooden



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

- Abraham Lincoln



Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

- Anne Sullivan



Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

- Vincent van Gogh



I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

- George Burns



In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather, achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.

- William Hastie



[S]uccess is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

- Michael Korda



Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.

- Ashleigh Brilliant



Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

- Lynn Davies



The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.

- Heywood Broun



It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

- Lillian Hellman



If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again."

- Sharon Salzberg



Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

- Armand DeMele



Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose -- not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

- Anne Sullivan



You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

- Arthur Ashe



Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

- Barack Obama



I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.

- Oprah Winfrey



Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



There is no failure except in no longer trying.

- Elbert Hubbard



I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan



If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford



Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.

- Mother Teresa



Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

- George Washington Carver



No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

- Al Gore



Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

- Margaret Mead



Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. (adapted)

- Lloyd Jones