Is it possible to fail and succeed at the same time?

Yes, for example fight and win a war - the campaign may have been successful, but the fact that a war had to fought means that other attempts at reconciliation had failed. There are many instances in history where a particular success had been too costly and has then resulted in the failure of the victors. In the corporate world you may succeed in defeating and may be even ousting your competition in a price war for which you may end up loosing the company itself.... A campaign may succeed, a battle won, but the war lost.......

yes, i think there are a lot of cases like this. you may have failed at one thing.. you may never have gotten this thing or job, or whatever that you really like, that you prayed for.. and it would turn out as though the reason why you never got that, or was not successful, because other things were planned for you, something better. =)

As for me, most of my success stories are begin from my failure. Through my failure, i learned and upgrade myself towards becoming successful. Although sometimes every failure doesn't mean will bring to success but at least it gives you chance to learn something new in return. Through it, you can modify your knowledge and thus become success through it. As everyone said, failure is the stepping stone of success.

nice & tricky question.....I believe the answer is yes. We need to fail in order to succeed. i guess in seeing it that way, one comes with the other. We learn from our mistakes & our failures. the more we learn from our failures, then the more successful we will become. people who are afraid to fail will never get anywhere; they cannot advance if they don't learn from mistakes.

yes it is possible. remember that success usually needs sacrifice. and the things we sacrifice will be our failure. for example: I study very hard to fulfill my ambition to become a 4-straight GPA student. I lock my self in room and in library to study, rarely go with friends to have fun, and do not participate in extra-curricular activities. by the time I get my 4-straight GPA, the university will grant me summa cumlaude which means I am a very successful student, academically. but clearly, I fail in social life and maybe nobody wanna be my friend.