Just because you're struggling with self-discipline doesn't mean you have to raise the white flag and declare your self-improvement efforts a complete failure. Instead, work to increase the chances that you'll stick to your healthier habits - even when you don't feel like it.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
The success, or failure, of a CEO to implement AI throughout the organization will depend on them hiring a leader to build an organization to do this. In some companies, CIOs or chief data officers are playing this role.
I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial 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.
Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.
I am constantly hungry for growth and that's what drives me. Success or failure of a project doesn't drive me.
I have never feared failure.
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.
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
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.
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of 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.
What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
If I've got a message to the younger generation, it's this: don't be scared of failure. Get out there, try things, and never be afraid to ask for help.
Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
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.
Not failure, but low aim is sin.
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.
In policy arena after policy arena, Democrats respond to every failure of clunky government by proposing the addition of still more layers to 1960s-era bureaucracies as they break down.
Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.
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.
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.
Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
You can try to make the right decision all the time, but it's better to just make a decision. I have done wrong so many times, but nine times out of 10, I have learned from my failure. Don't wait for something; just go for it.
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.