We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Failure is always an option.

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