Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness… but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.
You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure.
Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America’s global enemies sense a failure of will.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
Like anyone, I’m scared of failure. That drives you to work really hard.
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
I’m living life as best I can – but I’m not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
As is well known, ‘McCarthyism’ was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
We can’t leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don’t regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people’s lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else’s success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.
My thing with failure, just forget about it and get up and do it again.
As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I’ve learned that failure will always come. I’ve learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.
True leaders don’t invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.
There’s no such thing as failure – just waiting for success.
That’s me: success and failure don’t affect me.
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
I’ve discovered people in my lifetime who are like, ‘I always wanted to sing but… ‘ It’s like, ‘Well then, did you try?’ My thing was always not caring about failure.
A film’s success or failure is strictly on the director’s shoulders.
You can’t be afraid of failure and you can’t be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I’m a failure.
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
I’ve become a professional failure – in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.
But all actors go through the process, it’s hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is – in a distinctive way – a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price’s philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure.
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It’s something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
Failure is a word that I simply don’t accept.
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
There’s a lot of freedom in failure, and I can see that now.
I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes – it’s how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.
I don’t understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you’re stupid.
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.
When I got Jacob’s Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn’t allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I’d be, ‘out of there.’
As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.
Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
But by reframing the learning process and focusing on the cool end goal, the fear of failure is often taken off the table, and learning just comes more naturally.
