"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." - Abraham Lincoln
"I knew I was putting you under immense pressure when I rejected your work the other day. I set an impossible deadline - yet you have met it with work that I can only call outstanding. As your teacher, I had to push you to your limits so that you could recognize your own true potential." - Abdul Kalam
"Do not fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." - Bruce Lee
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." - Bill Gates
"When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives." - Abdul Kalam
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important." - Steve Jobs
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." - Albert Einstein
"I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest." - John Keats
"It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself." - John F Kennedy
"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." - Mary Kay Ash
