Here we have the best Failure Quotes from famous authors such as Jermaine O’Neal, Vinod Khosla, Mike Ditka, Aimee Bender, Cory Booker. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
I’m continuing to figure it out every single year: Life is a challenge, and the ones that succeed in life are the tough-minded ones that are not willing to accept failure.
The probability of failure doesn’t matter to me.
If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
My life has been nothing but a failure.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
It’s a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know – we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama’s political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician – nay, human being – of our time.
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.
I feel that ‘The Great Failure’ is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
For decades, conventional wisdom in the United States held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more liberal, first economically and then politically. We could not have been more wrong – a miscalculation that stands as the greatest failure of U.S. foreign policy since the 1930s.
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
There is always time for failure.
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
I’ve tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we’ll win again, but I’ve also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.
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.
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
My reputation grows with every failure.
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.
Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed.
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
Failure is always an option.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
I’ve criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There’s plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It’s not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That’s how we’re gonna do it, not by enlarging government.
Our nation’s Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.
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.
Failure is what we’re all running from, we’re always running toward success with failure at our back.
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Obama’s failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn’t really work. So then you don’t go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called ‘Back to Basics,’ I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends.
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
Failure is a personal thing but it’s better to experience it in the beginning itself because you learn to handle it.
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.
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
Failure? Scared to death of it.
With failure, you just try again.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater – why the better it is for all of us.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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.
Fear of failure, what is that? It would never occur to me.
Jill Eisenstadt’s comic second novel, ‘Kiss Out,’ is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Trump‘s biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
For me, it’s always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
What’s most disappointing about May’s failure on climate change is that Britain played such a pivotal role in securing international agreement on it in the first place.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
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.
I expect either total success or total failure. That’s my lot in life.
Definitely, it’s a fear of failure that drives me.
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.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
If one’s man’s trash is another man‘s treasure, then one industry‘s potential failure is another’s opportunity.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn’t an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.
You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.
The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness… but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
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 wanted to take away the fear of failure from the youngsters because when I came into the Indian team I faced that pressure.
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
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.
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn’t handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn’t meant to be.
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.
You always pass failure on your way to success.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
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.
Success is often built on the shoulders of failure – from which new configurations emerge.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure – and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
In addition to encouraging failure, I would also encourage companies to broadly create a culture of innovation. That should mean more than just technology and invention; it should mean something millennials know well: Ingenuity.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what’s going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington‘s failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
In our business, things look like a failure until they’re not. It’s pretty binary transitions.
I think it’s one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there’s so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
I don’t have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I’m willing to risk quite a lot – as a comedian, you’re always risking a lot. You’re risking failure, especially if you’re improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.
Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
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.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
At first I wasn’t sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.
Those who refuse to liberalise and globalise are doomed to failure.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Failure teaches you a lot more than success.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It’s a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we’re losing a little bit of that right now.
Fear of failure, it’s the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.
If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember – that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ‘clicks.’
Failure is easy to handle because once you fail, the options are very simple… like, ‘Try something different,’ or, ‘Maybe if you do the same thing, do it in a different way.’
In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
Every failure is a step to success.
Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There’s no such thing as success or failure.
Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching, I’ve learned from making mistakes.
We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
My first film was a failure. I had many failures too. It’s not easy dealing with it.
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
Failure is a word unknown to me.
I am constantly hungry for growth and that’s what drives me. Success or failure of a project doesn’t drive me.
The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man.
You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don’t know what they’re doing; they have no ideas… everything they do just is a failure.
Success is never final, but failure can be.
I think I’ve failed every test I’ve ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.
Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I’m just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs.
Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
It’s a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
A famous man once said, ‘A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.’ Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
Not failure, but low aim is sin.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
That’s me: success and failure don’t affect me.
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.
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.
The only real failure is giving up.
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success – or failure.
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
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.
Pride is ugly. It says, ‘If you succeed, I am a failure.’
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
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.
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.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises – in particular about prosperity, security – and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.
I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.
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.
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
Man is not made for defeat.
Failure too is a form of death.
Failure’s not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
When a marriage founders, this may well be cause for tremendous sadness, but it’s not a failure of spirit or character. People change, their goals and dreams alter, their ideas of themselves grow, or they just meet someone they like better.
I don’t have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to, and I told myself I wouldn’t allow myself to anymore.
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.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
I even get inspired by movies that aren’t very good, because there’s always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There’s good in everything, I find.
I’m sure not afraid of success and I’ve learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I’m afraid of now is of being someone I don’t like much.
Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.
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.
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it’s about work.
When you experience a failure as a leader, don’t hide it – talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you’ve got playing the leads.
We can’t have a failure in Iraq, but we also can’t be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it’s going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.
Failure holds the seeds for greatness – so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
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.
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
It’s not about the failure, it’s about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
I have never feared failure.
Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen.
America’s most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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.
I’ve always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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.
It’s not about failure; it’s about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
It’s the same with success and failure. There’s always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really – it’s so boring.
If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central bank should not intervene.
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
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.
I wouldn’t call Loopt a failure. It didn’t turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don’t regret it at all.
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.
I have always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
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.
Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you’re stupid.
I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.
I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
You have to learn how not to be defined by failure.
All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, ‘Do better. That’s not good enough. Do better.’ And so, that keeps me up at night.
When I was about 15… I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
You can’t please everyone, but I’ve always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You’ll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Well, I think it’s too early to call Fallujah a failure.
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.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Sometimes failure isn’t an opportunity in disguise, it’s just you.
Failure is impossible.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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.
I have never, ever considered myself a failure.
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.
We are equally glad and surprised at Winston’s return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ‘coaches‘ ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else‘s success.
I’m a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective.
The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn’t hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
I didn’t fear failure. I expected failure.
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
I believe only in art and failure.
I don’t think there’s any way it could have failed. We don’t know failure in this band. We didn’t know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
You don’t go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn’t make 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.
Trade wars in which countries are then obliged to retaliate by raising their own tariffs against the initiator undermine growth and hurt consumers. Far from being expressions of strength they highlight the failure of the initiating country’s economic sector to compete in the global market place.
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.’
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
At some point, most of us reach a place where we’re afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we’re already good at. This confines us and stifles us.
If you try to do your best there is no failure.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.
We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don’t understand commitment.
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
Yes, ‘Aagadu’ was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
