It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you’d signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now… unless you’ve signed to a big label, you’re a failure now.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
Failure doesn’t exist. It’s only a change of direction.
After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Failure and things of this sort – you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it’s your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn’t want to let them down.
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone’s going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism – or, at least, we used to.
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
I have probably purchased fifty ‘hot tips’ in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
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.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don’t. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
I have been relegated as a player, and I have suffered the feeling of failure. It is awful, and when you are part of an international outfit that gets so close, and you don’t do it, it is not a good feeling. I don’t want that again. I want to be part of a team that does something no one else has done.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
With engineering, I view this year’s failure as next year’s opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
Like all alchemists, Trump seeks to convert dross into gold, to toss a broth of his incompetence, denial, delay, deception, and failure into some supernatural alembic and extract political advantage.
My biggest failure is ‘Metal Gear.’ It’s my biggest failure and my biggest success.
So nevertheless, what I’m saying is that what one is – one’s parameters are constantly narrowed by one’s success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
I believe you must find the things in life that you love, and don’t let anybody or anything stop you. There may be lesser successes, but you’re never a failure unless you choose not to do something. I don’t fail unless I quit. You must believe to receive.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
The failure of the U.S.’s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.’s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.
We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
I don’t have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to, and I told myself I wouldn’t allow myself to anymore.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
The fear of failure never goes away. In many ways, you could argue that success multiplies the opportunities for failure. It’s just more of an argument for becoming more comfortable with it.
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one’s imagination and one’s goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it’s still there. When you accept both of them, it’s like, ‘You know what? Don’t get too identified with success or too identified with failure – just be cool with them.’
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Sometimes failure isn’t an opportunity in disguise, it’s just you.
Failure is always an option.
Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever done. Once I was married, I didn’t want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.
And in reality, I don’t think it’s a real documentary. It’s more a story of her life. It’s a story of survival. It’s a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
I don’t want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She’s the best thing I’ve ever done. Buffy – pretty great and all, but Charlotte’s way better.
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans’ prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.