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" So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste. "

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" There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people, and times when a game that is built around overcoming failure can teach us all a few important lessons. "

Theo Epstein

People

Overcoming

Failure

" Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable. "

" The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads. "

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

" I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand. "

" In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. "

Barack Obama

" The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded. "

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Past

Women

Social

" I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find. "

" Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. "

" I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. "

" In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. "

" The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. "

" America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. "

" We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure. "

" Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances. "

" Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes. "

" I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up. "

" There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. "

Michel de Montaigne

Victories

Failure

" A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. "

" Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. "

" Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. "

" Failure is success if we learn from it. "

" Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. "

" Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. "

" It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. "

" The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic. "

" I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear. "

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

" I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor. "

" Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something. "