Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.