How you succeed is how you deal with failure. Whatever way you dress it up, something hasn't worked.
I suppose that fear of failure is what drives me on.
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
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.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
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.
The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.
I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
Most people are afraid of failure. I love failure because it tells me where to go next.
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
You learn a lot of about people in failure.
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.
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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.
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
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.
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.
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.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
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?
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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 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.
The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
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.
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.
My life has been nothing but a failure.
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.
But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.
I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective.
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.