There’s tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
The French elites’ strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
If you show me someone who’s afraid of failure, I’ll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.
I’ve had many failures in terms of technological… business… and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.
Success is 99 percent failure.
It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.
Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
Don’t be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.
Nothing fails like failure.
Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington’s failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can’t think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.
My life has been nothing but a failure.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
It’s true that if it’s always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you’re a success, and if you don’t, you’re a failure, then you’re bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren’t many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven’t.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
I’ve struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a ‘prison of perfectionism,’ holding myself to a standard I couldn’t possibly live up to. Then I became a mom, and all of a sudden, there arose even more opportunities for failure.
If one’s man’s trash is another man’s treasure, then one industry’s potential failure is another’s opportunity.
There’s something to be said for failing. It’s not the failure you feel, it’s the failure that people project when something disappoints. You’re back to ground zero, where there’s no expectations, and that’s where I like to be.
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt – in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure – to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will – undoubtedly – fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I’m just not going to let this get me down.
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
I felt a failure because I couldn’t sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn’t hire me as a real writer.
Those who refuse to liberalise and globalise are doomed to failure.
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
I’ve always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
That sense of failure, I don’t know where people put it who don’t write songs and aren’t able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn’t an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn’t able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.
The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Failure does not scare me.
I think failure is nothing more than life’s way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.
No commander-in-chief should leave Americans behind in the aftermath of a failure.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
