“Modest successes are better known as failures.”

“It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.”

“In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.”

“Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.”

“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.”

“Humble and self-effacing, Murthy is known to fly economy class and lives in a modest home in Bangalore -- proof, say his fans, that you can combine business success with Gandhian humility.”

“…we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply—as when Mallory said, about Everest: “Success is meaningless here.””

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

“We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.”

“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.”