“If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you’re not really successful.”– John Larroquette Related Quotes “A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”– Gertrude Stein “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”– Denis Waitley “Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.”– Orlando Bloom