Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure. But the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

In any case, you must not confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.

Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.

You should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.

Anyone who attempts is not a failure. Sarah Dessen

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

“You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.”

“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

“My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.” 

“In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all. ” 

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. 

We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

 “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”

“If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.”