"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success." - Edward DowdenTweet
"Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all." - Jerry BrownTweet
"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." - Alexandre DumasTweet
"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday." - Wilma RudolphTweet
"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others." - Amelia EarhartTweet
"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." - Thomas A. EdisonTweet
"Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty." - Vijay MallyaTweet
"Failure too is a form of death." - Graham GreeneTweet
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit." - Napoleon HillTweet
"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king." - Abraham MaslowTweet