Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.
Anything less than gold is a failure to me. It's extreme pressure, but I hold myself to a high standard.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
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.
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
With failure, you just try again.
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.
Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
A no deal Brexit would be a complete failure by the government to negotiate for Britain.
Failure does not scare me.
I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
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.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
All the world loves a good loser.
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.
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'
Failure is a personal thing but it's better to experience it in the beginning itself because you learn to handle it.
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
You have to learn how not to be defined by failure.
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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.
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.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Fear of failure, what is that? It would never occur to me.
I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.