Failure Loss and Defeat

If one asks for success and prepares for failure,he will get the situation he has prepared for.The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."If you stop struggling, then you stop life."Everything that happens, happens as it should and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet."Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."Nothing is permanent in this world; not even our troubles."What is defeat Nothing but education;nothing but the first step to something better."There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve;The fear of failure."A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed; for it is a sign that he tried to surpass himself."Success is never ending, failure is never final."Failure isn't failing at the project at hand.Failure is giving up on yourself."Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. "No man is ever whipped until he quits... in his own mind."One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. "Act as if it were impossible to fail."The gem cannot be polished without friction,nor man perfected without trials."Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things."You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."Success and failure are equally disastrous."How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.~Norman Vincent Peale~"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction."It's not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."Do not fear mistakes, there are none."I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward