An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)

If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win. (Quote by - Walter Reuther)

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate (Quote by - George F. Burns)

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody. (Quote by - Herbert B. Swope)

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. (Quote by - Truman Capote)

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. (Quote by - Jessamyn West)

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. (Quote by - Paramahansa Yogananda)

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. (Quote by - J. Paul Getty)

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)

He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride. (Quote by - John Bunyan)

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. (Quote by - Georges Clemenceau)

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. (Quote by - Elaine Maxwell)

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)

The only risk of failure is promotion. (Quote by - Scott Adams)

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. (Quote by - Doug Coupland)

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. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas)

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. (Quote by - Bishop Reginald Heber)

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down. (Quote by - William M. Winans)