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" Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. "

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" My fears are never about failure - it's about extreme success. "

" Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure. "

" Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. "

" Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again. "

" Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. "

" Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. "

" We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it... It's a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off. "

Whitney Wolfe Herd

" Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. "

William Howard Taft

" I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning. "

" Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. "

" Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake. "

" Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. "

" The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound. "

" Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. "

" 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. "

Tennessee Williams

" I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them. "

" Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources, startups cannot afford to have any slackers on board. When you fail, you cause an 'epic failure,' and when you win, everyone in the company knows about it. "

" The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. "

Laurence J. Peter

" There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. "

" Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure. "

" If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system. "

" Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind. "

Natalie Massenet

" For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. "

" Failure too is a form of death. "

" The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. "

" It's about not having doubt in your mind and staying focused and not having any preconceived notion about failure. It's just looking forward and staying positive. "

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

" The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings. "

Walter Cronkite

" If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. "

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