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.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
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.
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.'
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
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.
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
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.
One should accept failure, and be willing to learn, unlearn and relearn again.
It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed.
It's not compatible to expect multilateralism to work and, at the same time, to expect to walk out with everything you wanted. This is a recipe for failure. If we prize the system, we have to come knowing that we will need to make compromises. Sometimes painful compromises.
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.
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.
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
In theory, I absolutely love to work from home, in all its warmth and comfort, but have reluctantly been forced to confess that it's a total failure.
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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.
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.
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
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.
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.
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.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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.
Failure? Scared to death of it.
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
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.
I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
Donald Trump got impeached for his Ukraine Plan A and the economy went down the tubes, thanks to his failure to deal with the Coronavirus.