It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

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.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.