Author | Quote | Rank |
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Winston Churchill | Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. | 6 |
Thomas A. Edison | I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. | 50 |
Ernest Hemingway | But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. | 99 |
Donald Trump | Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. | 101 |
Conor McGregor | I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them. | 101 |
J. K. Rowling | 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. | 101 |
LeBron James | You have to be able to accept failure to get better. | 101 |
Andy Murray | In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach. | 101 |
Calvin Coolidge | Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. | 101 |
James Joyce | Mistakes are the portals of discovery. | 101 |
Johnny Cash | You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. | 101 |
Steve Harvey | Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share. | 101 |
Andy Grove | Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. | 101 |
Benjamin E. Mays | The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. | 101 |
Carol Gilligan | 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. | 101 |
Cory Booker | If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. | 101 |
Don Shula | Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. | 101 |
Harold Ramis | How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. | 101 |
Henry Cavill | As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success. | 101 |
Jennifer Lawrence | Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. | 101 |
Malcolm Forbes | Failure is success if we learn from it. | 101 |
Maxwell Maltz | Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. | 101 |
Morihei Ueshiba | Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. | 101 |
Natalie Massenet | Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind. | 101 |
Orison Swett Marden | 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. | 101 |
Peter Berg | 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. | 101 |
Rosalynn Carter | You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. 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. | 101 |
Yves Chauvin | My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk. | 101 |
Debra Winger | I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? | 101 |
Earl Wilson | Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. | 101 |
Edward Dowden | Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. | 101 |
Gifford Pinchot | Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. | 101 |
Henry Spencer | Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try. | 101 |
Herbert Bayard Swope | I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. | 101 |
John Malkovich | Failure's a natural part of life. | 101 |
John Caudwell | The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure. | 101 |
Lee H. Hamilton | 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. | 101 |
Michael Buble | I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts. | 101 |
Michael Mullen | Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes. | 101 |
Nate Lowman | I love language, and I love the failure of language. | 101 |
Neel Mukherjee | In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help. | 101 |
Peter Senge | Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best. | 101 |
Robert Fripp | There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. | 101 |
Suki Waterhouse | Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best. | 101 |
Sumner Redstone | Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. | 101 |
Burt Rutan | Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding. | 101 |
Carol Alt | It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. | 101 |
Christian Marclay | With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. | 101 |
David Levering Lewis | The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work. | 101 |
Erin Cummings | At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure. | 101 |
Gary Player | We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. | 101 |
Grant Morrison | Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. | 101 |
Jay Samit | There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out. | 101 |
Mike Greenberg | Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration. | 101 |
Rick Santelli | I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. | 101 |
Tony Jaa | Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. | 101 |
William Whewell | Every failure is a step to success. | 101 |
Billy Dee Williams | Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger. | 101 |
Chris Hedges | The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. | 101 |
Elisabetta Canalis | At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye. | 101 |
George Canning | Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. | 101 |
George Edmund Street | I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. | 101 |
Greg Bear | Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. | 101 |
Herbert Kaufman | Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. | 101 |
Hildegard Knef | Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about. | 101 |
Peter Barris | Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. | 101 |
Shannen Doherty | 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. | 101 |
Ameen Rihani | There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul. | 101 |
Edmond H. Fischer | 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. | 101 |
John Paul DeJoria | Success unshared is failure. | 101 |
Maude Adams | Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. | 101 |
Dale Dauten | Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility. | 101 |
Jim Sturgess | Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption. | 101 |
Louis E. Boone | Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. | 101 |
Monique Roffey | 'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad. | 101 |
Roger von Oech | 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. | 101 |
Colin R. Davis | The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. | 101 |
David S. Rose | The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction. | 101 |
Anne Baxter | I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. | 101 |
Solomon Asch | Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. | 101 |
Mary Pickford | You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. | 101 |
Montgomery Clift | Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. | 101 |
Morton Hunt | Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. | 101 |
Mark Ryan | 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. | 101 |
Michael Savage | Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. | 101 |
J. Maarten Troost | 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. | 101 |
Jim Palmer | Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. | 101 |
Charlie Chaplin | Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. | 102 |
Colin Powell | Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. | 102 |
Paulo Coelho | 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. | 102 |
Og Mandino | Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. | 102 |
Oprah Winfrey | Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. | 102 |
Rudyard Kipling | We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. | 102 |
Brennan Manning | 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. | 102 |
Charles Stanley | 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. | 102 |
Davy Crockett | Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. | 102 |
Dick Morris | There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, and on the other hand, bounded by what the media says is politically correct. And that's where Donald Trump lives. And it's our failure to admit what we all know to be true in the guise of political correctness that fuels the Trump candidacy. | 102 |
Felix Dennis | Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. | 102 |
Florence Scovel Shinn | Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. | 102 |
George Edward Woodberry | Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. | 102 |
Henry Paulson | For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. | 102 |
Kareena Kapoor Khan | 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. | 102 |
Michael Gove | As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined. | 102 |
Mike Krzyzewski | 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. | 102 |
Oliver Hudson | His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you. | 102 |
Wilma Rudolph | Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. | 102 |
Aimee Bender | There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss. | 102 |
Charlotte Whitton | It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. | 102 |
Dan Kaminsky | The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent. | 102 |
James Altucher | Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure. | 102 |
James Cameron | If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. | 102 |
Rosalind Russell | Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. | 102 |
Alexander Haig | 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. | 102 |
Ben Foster | It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself. | 102 |
Hart Crane | The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. | 102 |
Harvey Korman | 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. | 102 |
Mark Skousen | Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. | 102 |
Michael Ramsey | Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime. | 102 |
Thomas Haden Church | But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure. | 102 |
Billy Childish | Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way. | 102 |
Dave Van Ronk | 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. | 102 |
Edwin Markham | Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. | 102 |
Erland Josephson | A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it. | 102 |
Gary Ryan Blair | 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. | 102 |
Harry Oppenheimer | 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. | 102 |
Hector Berlioz | At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. | 102 |
Jimmy Connors | Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. | 102 |
Lev Yilmaz | 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. | 102 |
Malcolm Mclaren | 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. | 102 |
M. Stanton Evans | 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. | 102 |
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow | The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. | 102 |
Sean Lennon | 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. | 102 |
Skylar Grey | Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way. | 102 |
Tim Harford | Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy. | 102 |
Tom Cochrane | Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. | 102 |
Dominick Dunne | For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless. | 102 |
Millicent Fawcett | The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. | 102 |
Alan Price | The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. | 102 |
Bo Schembechler | If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming. | 102 |
Claire Messud | I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc. | 102 |
Mike Farrell | If you try to do your best there is no failure. | 102 |
Rupert Holmes | 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. | 102 |
Berthe Morisot | A love of nature is a consolation against failure. | 102 |
Brian Harris | 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. | 102 |
Anne Baxter | It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. | 102 |
Suzy Kassem | Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. | 102 |
Mario Teguh | Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count. | 102 |
Arthur C. Danto | It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure. | 102 |
Judith McNaught | Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure. | 102 |
Winston Churchill | Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. | 103 |
Colin Powell | There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. | 103 |
B. F. Skinner | A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. | 103 |
Joe Biden | Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. | 103 |
Alicia Keys | Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail. | 103 |
Allen Tate | So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. | 103 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. | 103 |
Christopher Morley | A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. | 103 |
Gertrude Stein | A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. | 103 |
Hideo Kojima | My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success. | 103 |
Lucille Ball | 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. | 103 |
Matthew McConaughey | We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success. | 103 |
Paul Tillich | He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. | 103 |
Wynonna Judd | My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. | 103 |
Xavier Becerra | Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. | 103 |
Zbigniew Brzezinski | 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. | 103 |
Dorothea Brande | All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. | 103 |
Ellen Page | I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men. | 103 |
Elliot Richardson | There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. | 103 |
Frederic William Farrar | There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. | 103 |
Gordon Moore | 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. | 103 |
Nick Turse | U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place. | 103 |
Tom Hopkins | I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. | 103 |
Edward Bach | The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold. | 103 |
Greil Marcus | No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. | 103 |
Hans Eysenck | 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. | 103 |
Jon Oringer | You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation. | 103 |
Mike Mills | Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive. | 103 |
Richard V. Allen | 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. | 103 |
Shahid Kapoor | It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder. | 103 |
Susie Orbach | I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse. | 103 |
Will C. Barnes | Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.' | 103 |
Arthur C. Brooks | The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure. | 103 |
George Hickenlooper | I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful. | 103 |
Mimi Kennedy | Appearances are not truth. But every politician knows that his or her image, as well as his or her actions, can make the difference between failure and success. | 103 |
Paul Twitchell | 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. | 103 |
Rob Thomas | Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there. | 103 |
David Sarnoff | The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. | 103 |
Elie Tahari | I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again. | 103 |
Maude Adams | Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best. | 103 |
Michael Crawford | 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. | 103 |
Patanjali | Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self. | 103 |
Robert Half | Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. | 103 |
Sonia Johnson | What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. | 103 |
Dana Fox | My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.' | 103 |
John B. S. Haldane | We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. | 103 |
Robert E. Howard | 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. | 103 |
John Poindexter | You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. | 103 |
Rouben Mamoulian | The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary. | 103 |
Shane Leslie | 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. | 103 |
Jean Kerr | I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. | 103 |
Joshua Harris | You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ. | 103 |
Bill Gates | It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. | 104 |
Colin Powell | Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. | 104 |
Henry Ford | Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. | 104 |
Kobe Bryant | 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. | 104 |
Brene Brown | There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period. | 104 |
Swami Sivananda | Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. | 104 |
Claude Monet | My life has been nothing but a failure. | 104 |
Donna Brazile | Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective. | 104 |
George Cukor | You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. | 104 |
Hank Aaron | Failure is a part of success. | 104 |
Kevin Smith | 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. | 104 |
Paramahansa Yogananda | The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. | 104 |
Slavoj Zizek | I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. | 104 |
Sting | That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere. | 104 |
Thomas Babington Macaulay | American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. | 104 |
Tullian Tchividjian | Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. | 104 |
LeAnn Rimes | I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices. | 104 |
Mark Frauenfelder | In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure. | 104 |
Paddy Ashdown | The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. | 104 |
Patrick Stump | There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty. | 104 |
Rick Pitino | Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. | 104 |
S. I. Hayakawa | Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. | 104 |
Sheila Jackson Lee | By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. | 104 |
Tim Wise | Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments. | 104 |
Willard Wigan | My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure. | 104 |
Brett Ratner | When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong. | 104 |
George Allen | I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. | 104 |
Humphry Davy | The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. | 104 |
Steve Forbes | The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China. | 104 |
William Frederick Book | Never permit failure to become a habit. | 104 |
Ann Cotton | Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up. | 104 |
Billy Childish | I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters. | 104 |
Emanuel Steward | 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. | 104 |
Mark Lawrenson | Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes. | 104 |
Markus Zusak | Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through. | 104 |
Robert Farrar Capon | At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. | 104 |
Robin Tunney | A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders. | 104 |
Cal Thomas | 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. | 104 |
E. Franklin Frazier | Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. | 104 |
Kurt Student | 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. | 104 |
Maude Adams | When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure. | 104 |
Michael Chertoff | Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city. | 104 |
John Mica | 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. | 104 |
Roger Babson | It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. | 104 |
Shaffi Mather | The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure. | 104 |
Anna Garlin Spencer | 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. | 104 |
Chuck Barris | 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. | 104 |
Michael Feldman | I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success. | 104 |
Roland Gift | Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure. | 104 |
Scott Brown | 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. | 104 |
Alvin Adams | Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. | 104 |
An Wang | You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. | 104 |
John Dingell | War is failure of diplomacy. | 104 |
Matt Passmore | There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season. | 104 |
Michael Baden | I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays. | 104 |
Alice Foote MacDougall | I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail. | 104 |
Jerry Brown | Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all. | 104 |
John Hersey | It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. | 104 |
C. S. Lewis | Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. | 105 |
Robert E. Lee | We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. | 105 |
Michel de Montaigne | There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. | 105 |
B. C. Forbes | The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. | 105 |
Casey Stengel | You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right. | 105 |
Charlie Sheen | As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? | 105 |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices. | 105 |
Edwin Land | An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. | 105 |
Florence Scovel Shinn | 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.' | 105 |
Gordon Parks | 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. | 105 |
Henry Knox | Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. | 105 |
Mother Angelica | 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. | 105 |
Robert Kiyosaki | The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.' | 105 |
Scott Stossel | I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive. | 105 |
William Howard Taft | Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. | 105 |
Yann Martel | Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. | 105 |
Daley Thompson | Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance. | 105 |
Eric Topol | For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great? | 105 |
Ranbir Kapoor | I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life. | 105 |
Soichiro Honda | Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. | 105 |
Tom Baker | 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. | 105 |
Anupam Kher | Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining. | 105 |
Cat Cora | Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom. | 105 |
Ronald Kessler | With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another. | 105 |
William Empson | Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. | 105 |
Ed Case | The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country. | 105 |
Gary Ryan Blair | 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. | 105 |
Matt Emmons | Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth. | 105 |
Tom Kite | Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success. | 105 |
Cory Lidle | Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly. | 105 |
Bruno Bettelheim | The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them. | 105 |
Chade-Meng Tan | Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm. | 105 |
John Osborne | There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success. | 105 |
Rupert Holmes | But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure! | 105 |
Sidney Hook | Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. | 105 |
Aaron Huey | War is the greatest failure of mankind. | 105 |
Ron Dellums | Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying. | 105 |
Margaret Drabble | Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. | 105 |
Jack Lemmon | Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. | 105 |
Napoleon Hill | Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. | 106 |
Nigel Farage | It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth. | 106 |
Richard Branson | Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. | 106 |
Chanakya | Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. | 106 |
Alain Ducasse | Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments. | 106 |
Alan King | My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.' | 106 |
Ann Landers | There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. | 106 |
Berkeley Breathed | That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly. | 106 |
Charles Schwab | 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. | 106 |
Daniel Webster | Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. | 106 |
David Mamet | War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. | 106 |
Desi Arnaz | Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. | 106 |
E. O. Wilson | You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. | 106 |
Erik Erikson | Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. | 106 |
Francis Picabia | The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. | 106 |
George Burns | I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. | 106 |
John Burroughs | A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. | 106 |
Kevin Bacon | 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. | 106 |
Lupita Nyong'o | It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience. | 106 |
Mike Ditka | Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. | 106 |
Mike Murdock | Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. | 106 |
Niecy Nash | When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure. | 106 |
Niklas Zennstrom | You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed. | 106 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. | 106 |
Victor Kiam | Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. | 106 |
Andre Malraux | 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. | 106 |
Bob Woodward | 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. | 106 |
Deborah Moggach | It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter. | 106 |
Gabrielle Union | You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood. | 106 |
Herbert Samuel | It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. | 106 |
Jason Silva | 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. | 106 |
Jerry Saltz | I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.' | 106 |
Randeep Hooda | I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart. | 106 |
Sara Blakely | My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. | 106 |
Soichiro Honda | Success is 99 percent failure. | 106 |
Eskinder Nega | Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for. | 106 |
Laurence Housman | 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. | 106 |
Peter Morgan | I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things. | 106 |
Sam Abell | There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved. | 106 |
Arthur Bloch | A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. | 106 |
Douglas Wood | Fear of failure has always been my best motivator. | 106 |
Errol Flynn | Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. | 106 |
David Malpass | The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It's unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt. | 106 |
Michael Crawford | Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life. | 106 |
Mickey Gilley | My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year. | 106 |
Tiki Barber | I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure. | 106 |
Mark Edwards | To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. | 106 |
Roger Babson | Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. | 106 |
Aunjanue Ellis | I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect. | 106 |
Margaret Drabble | Nothing fails like failure. | 106 |
Jasper Carrott | I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure. | 106 |
John Hersey | Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. | 106 |
John C. Maxwell | The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. | 107 |
Michael Jordan | I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. | 107 |
Tony Robbins | I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. | 107 |
Abraham Joshua Heschel | Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. | 107 |
Adam Savage | Failure is always an option. | 107 |
George Clooney | The only failure is not to try. | 107 |
Gloria Swanson | If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. | 107 |
Mary Kay Ash | 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. | 107 |
Myles Munroe | When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure. | 107 |
Nikki Giovanni | 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. | 107 |
Phyllis Schlafly | Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. | 107 |
Rickey Henderson | Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. | 107 |
Seth Godin | In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. | 107 |
Theodor Herzl | Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. | 107 |
Tony McCoy | From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few. | 107 |
Arianna Huffington | We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success. | 107 |
Charles Horton Cooley | Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. | 107 |
Joe Strummer | The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed. | 107 |
Jon Meacham | The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. | 107 |
Natalie Goldberg | 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. | 107 |
Robert W. Service | No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. | 107 |
Kevin Powers | One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path. | 107 |
Laura Fraser | When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more. | 107 |
Elizabeth Pena | When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.' | 107 |
Tim Harford | If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem. | 107 |
Corey Hart | I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure. | 107 |
Jim Cooper | Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems. | 107 |
Alice James | The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. | 107 |
John Roos | What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce. | 107 |
John H. Johnson | Failure is a word that I simply don't accept. | 107 |
Winston Churchill | Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. | 108 |
John Wooden | Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. | 108 |
Norman Vincent Peale | 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. | 108 |
Elbert Hubbard | A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. | 108 |
Chester W. Nimitz | 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? | 108 |
Eric Hoffer | There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. | 108 |
Kin Hubbard | 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. | 108 |
Malcolm Muggeridge | There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. | 108 |
Neal Boortz | 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. | 108 |
Quentin Crisp | If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. | 108 |
Rosalynn Carter | 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. | 108 |
Thomas J. Watson | You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. | 108 |
Vin Diesel | 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. | 108 |
Walter Scott | Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. | 108 |
William Feather | No man is a failure who is enjoying life. | 108 |
William Lloyd Garrison | We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! | 108 |
Alexandre Dumas | A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. | 108 |
Allan Bloom | The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. | 108 |
Colum McCann | I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street. | 108 |
Mickey Rooney | You always pass failure on your way to success. | 108 |
Mitch Daniels | The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. | 108 |
Sara Blakely | I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself. | 108 |
Tadashi Yanai | I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer. | 108 |
William Irwin Thompson | 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. | 108 |
Agnetha Faltskog | It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into! | 108 |
Alan Shearer | We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game. | 108 |
Chris Zylka | My greatest fear is failure. | 108 |
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | 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. | 108 |
Pete Sessions | 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. | 108 |
Steven Moffat | The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads. | 108 |
Anna Neagle | The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure. | 108 |
Bill Moyers | War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. | 108 |
Gary Ryan Blair | Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. | 108 |
Gavyn Davies | It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system. | 108 |
James Lane Allen | He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. | 108 |
Jerry Bruckheimer | Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me. | 108 |
Toni Cade Bambara | The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. | 108 |
Daniel Inouye | Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General. | 108 |
James Mark Baldwin | Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. | 108 |
Jon Corzine | It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels. | 108 |
Jonathan Raban | Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't. | 108 |
Jeff Beck | If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau. | 108 |
Theodore Roosevelt | Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. | 109 |
Louis C. K. | I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at. | 109 |
William James | Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. | 109 |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. | 109 |
Atul Gawande | You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure. | 109 |
Benjamin E. Mays | Not failure, but low aim is sin. | 109 |
Bryan Cranston | If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure. | 109 |
Chuck Noll | Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it. | 109 |
Cliff Richard | But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure. | 109 |
Emma Watson | I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. | 109 |
George Matthew Adams | It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone. | 109 |
Gordon Ramsay | I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure. | 109 |
Henry Kravis | As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. | 109 |
Jonathan Kozol | I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure. | 109 |
Maxwell Maltz | You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. | 109 |
Naveen Jain | 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. | 109 |
Shah Rukh Khan | Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. | 109 |
Thomas J. Watson | If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. | 109 |
Tina Fey | For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it. | 109 |
Ty Cobb | Don't come home a failure. | 109 |
Amy Tan | 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. | 109 |
Jimmy Carr | As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing. | 109 |
Matt Blunt | Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure. | 109 |
Matt Taibbi | The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser? | 109 |
Tammy Bruce | One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. | 109 |
Tony Kushner | I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities. | 109 |
David Limbaugh | Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama. | 109 |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan | The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. | 109 |
Joseph Barber Lightfoot | The success and the failure are not my concern, but His. | 109 |
Michael Koryta | I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book. | 109 |
Douglas Fairbanks | In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure. | 109 |
Steve Jobs | Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. | 110 |
George W. Bush | I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. | 110 |
John Wooden | Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. | 110 |
Jay-Z | Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. | 110 |
Bill Cosby | I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. | 110 |
Felicity Kendal | Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. | 110 |
Ferran Adria | Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. | 110 |
H. G. Wells | Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. | 110 |
Hideki Tojo | The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. | 110 |
James Allen | 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. | 110 |
Knute Rockne | Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. | 110 |
Lincoln Steffens | Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. | 110 |
Mia Hamm | Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. | 110 |
Myles Munroe | True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people. | 110 |
Shah Rukh Khan | Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent. | 110 |
Tommy Lasorda | About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure. | 110 |
Tullian Tchividjian | My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess. | 110 |
Whoopi Goldberg | We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. | 110 |
James Altucher | Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people. | 110 |
Toby Young | I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. | 110 |
William Kingdon Clifford | When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that. | 110 |
Anupam Kher | It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things. | 110 |
Koichi Tanaka | Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. | 110 |
Alan Hansen | The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. | 110 |
Boutros Boutros-Ghali | 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. | 110 |
Malcolm Mclaren | 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. | 110 |
John Connolly | The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself. | 110 |
Thomas A. Edison | Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. | 111 |
Anthony J. D'Angelo | The only real failure in life is one not learned from. | 111 |
Branch Rickey | I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. | 111 |
Elizabeth Taylor | I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. | 111 |
Fidel Castro | They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? | 111 |
Heston Blumenthal | I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed. | 111 |
Jerry Rice | 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. | 111 |
Mike Krzyzewski | 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. | 111 |
Robert H. Schuller | Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. | 111 |
Truman Capote | Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. | 111 |
Walter Pater | In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. | 111 |
Warren Farrell | Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete. | 111 |
Alberto Giacometti | All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. | 111 |
Garry Shandling | 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. | 111 |
Jules Renard | Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. | 111 |
Karl Liebknecht | The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. | 111 |
Loudon Wainwright III | I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it. | 111 |
Toby Young | America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. | 111 |
Bob Ainsworth | Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch. | 111 |
Estelle Morris | Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so. | 111 |
Jensen Ackles | Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure. | 111 |
Judd Nelson | With failure, you just try again. | 111 |
Albert Claude | This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. | 111 |
Ruben Hinojosa | 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. | 111 |
Sanjay Kumar | Failure is unfortunately as common as success. | 111 |
Charles Inglis | A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. | 111 |
Joseph Barber Lightfoot | I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success. | 111 |
Roger von Oech | Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. | 111 |
Jeff Tweedy | I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. | 111 |
John Mortimer | There is always time for failure. | 111 |
Henry A. Wallace | This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. | 112 |
Amelia Earhart | Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others. | 112 |
Denis Waitley | 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. | 112 |
Carter G. Woodson | 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. | 112 |
Emma Stone | Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops. | 112 |
J. Paul Getty | I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. | 112 |
John Kenneth Galbraith | War remains the decisive human failure. | 112 |
Michael J. Fox | There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. | 112 |
Rahm Emanuel | 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? | 112 |
Xavier Becerra | African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. | 112 |
Akshay Kumar | 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. | 112 |
Alastair Campbell | Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure. | 112 |
Emma Donoghue | I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was. | 112 |
Shinzo Abe | I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan. | 112 |
Takeshi Kitano | My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another! | 112 |
Trisha Yearwood | Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship. | 112 |
Dan Buettner | Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden. | 112 |
David D. Burns | Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills. | 112 |
Cathy Rigby | Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure. | 112 |
Albert J. Nock | 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. | 112 |
Jamie Moyer | If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure. | 112 |
John C. Maxwell | Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure. | 113 |
Erin Gruwell | Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport. | 113 |
Isabella Bird | A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies. | 113 |
Judith Butler | 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. | 113 |
Larry Elder | 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. | 113 |
Lupe Fiasco | In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront. | 113 |
Tommy Lasorda | 'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. | 113 |
Twyla Tharp | Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. | 113 |
Brian Ferneyhough | 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. | 113 |
Darrell Issa | I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform. | 113 |
Don Johnson | People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you! | 113 |
Henry Petroski | Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. | 113 |
Michael Korda | The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. | 113 |
Rhys Ifans | You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think. | 113 |
Rob Zombie | Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure. | 113 |
Wesley Morris | There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that. | 113 |
Dirk Benedict | Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread. | 113 |
Michael Mandelbaum | The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure. | 113 |
Sam Donaldson | 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. | 113 |
Ali Larter | I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life. | 113 |
Jeremy Irons | 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. | 113 |
Stephane Hessel | The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century. | 113 |
John C. Maxwell | Without failure there is no achievement. | 114 |
John Dewey | Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. | 114 |
Ben Okri | The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure. | 114 |
Bill Cosby | In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. | 114 |
Chiang Kai-shek | Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it. | 114 |
Geoffrey Canada | Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. | 114 |
Henry B. Eyring | The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves. | 114 |
Irwin Redlener | Poverty leads to hardship and failure. | 114 |
John P. Kotter | The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high. | 114 |
Samuel Smiles | We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. | 114 |
Sebastian Thrun | Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure. | 114 |
Vivek Wadhwa | An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is. | 114 |
Bruce Forsyth | In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage. | 114 |
Carroll Quigley | 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. | 114 |
Frederick W. Smith | Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. | 114 |
Jonah Hill | I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched. | 114 |
Peter Guber | Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are. | 114 |
Jose Mujica | There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure. | 114 |
Molly Ringwald | I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. | 114 |
Shekhar Kapur | I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success. | 114 |
Thomas Haden Church | Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life. | 114 |
Malcolm Mclaren | I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules. | 114 |
Joseph Barbera | Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. | 114 |
Marsha Norman | At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself. | 114 |
James F. Byrnes | The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit. | 114 |
Jim Dale | You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure. | 114 |
Douglas MacArthur | Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. | 115 |
Elbert Hubbard | There is no failure except in no longer trying. | 115 |
Oprah Winfrey | If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. | 115 |
B. C. Forbes | The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. | 115 |
Brennan Manning | Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk. | 115 |
Earl Warren | The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. | 115 |
Gail Sheehy | Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on. | 115 |
George Burns | I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. | 115 |
Guy Kawasaki | Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing. | 115 |
James Dyson | Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something. | 115 |
John Burroughs | A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. | 115 |
Jonathan Kozol | By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. | 115 |
Kathy Ireland | But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated. | 115 |
Luc de Clapiers | Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. | 115 |
Henry Petroski | Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. | 115 |
Michael Korda | Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. | 115 |
Peter Senge | Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. | 115 |
Judd Nelson | 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. | 115 |
Morris West | 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. | 115 |
Russell Pearce | Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place. | 115 |
David Henry Hwang | We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience. | 115 |
Dolly Parton | I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. | 116 |
Thomas Sowell | Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. | 116 |
Jack Kerouac | My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. | 116 |
Adam Schiff | 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. | 116 |
Edward Abbey | Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. | 116 |
Eric Ries | The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure. | 116 |
J. Paul Getty | A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. | 116 |
Lily Tomlin | Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. | 116 |
Robert Orben | Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success. | 116 |
Tony Benn | All war represents a failure of diplomacy. | 116 |
William Hurt | Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure. | 116 |
Alexander Wang | I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges. | 116 |
Amos Bronson Alcott | We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. | 116 |
Chen Shui-bian | 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. | 116 |
Henry Petroski | The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs. | 116 |
Sara Blakely | I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. | 116 |
Alana Stewart | I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth. | 116 |
Alexander Payne | I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it. | 116 |
Scott Weiss | Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure. | 116 |
James Lane Allen | 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. | 116 |
Malcolm Mclaren | Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed. | 116 |
Roddy Doyle | Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. | 116 |
Dale Carnegie | Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. | 117 |
Thomas A. Edison | Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. | 117 |
Al Sharpton | In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience. | 117 |
Dean Kamen | My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. | 117 |
Eric Ries | I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash. | 117 |
Evel Knievel | If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up. | 117 |
Hamish Bowles | This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore. | 117 |
Kevin Costner | Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen. | 117 |
Robert H. Schuller | If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. | 117 |
Umberto Eco | Translation is the art of failure. | 117 |
Arlie Russell Hochschild | 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. | 117 |
Joe Strummer | The hippy movement was a failure. | 117 |
Anupam Kher | Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it. | 117 |
Marvin Minsky | There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. | 117 |
Johann Most | Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. | 117 |
Amelia Earhart | Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. | 118 |
E. O. Wilson | If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. | 118 |
Edsger Dijkstra | Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. | 118 |
Orison Swett Marden | Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. | 118 |
Paul Johnson | Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless efficiency? I suspect future historians will puzzle over our failure. But by then, of course, we shall be in the age of mass space travel, with its fresh and unimaginable crop of horrors. | 118 |
Russell Simmons | People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most. | 118 |
Alan Arkin | It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing. | 118 |
Beau Willimon | You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side. | 118 |
Eleanor Catton | I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. | 118 |
Ron Perlman | I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure. | 118 |
Suki Waterhouse | Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure. | 118 |
William T. Vollmann | Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly. | 118 |
Sue Townsend | Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure. | 118 |
Malcolm Mclaren | Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success. | 118 |
Nigel Farage | The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. | 119 |
Thomas Sowell | One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. | 119 |
Abraham Maslow | One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. | 119 |
Amelia Earhart | Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. | 119 |
Og Mandino | 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. | 119 |
Alfred Adler | No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. | 119 |
Ann Voskamp | I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks. | 119 |
Bernard Baruch | Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. | 119 |
Charles Duhigg | When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along. | 119 |
Rain | The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed. | 119 |
Vijay Mallya | Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty. | 119 |
Jane McGonigal | When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again. | 119 |
Lady Gregory | The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart. | 119 |
John Battelle | I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure. | 119 |
John Banville | I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure. | 119 |
Steven Soderbergh | I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people. | 119 |
W. Clement Stone | 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. | 120 |
Arnold J. Toynbee | A life which does not go into action is a failure. | 120 |
Bryant H. McGill | While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. | 120 |
Carlos Ghosn | You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure. | 120 |
Christian Nestell Bovee | A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. | 120 |
Emma Watson | I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. | 120 |
George Herbert | Sometimes the best gain is to lose. | 120 |
Mel Gibson | Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure. | 120 |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Failure is a word unknown to me. | 120 |
Orhan Pamuk | Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure. | 120 |
Robert Browning | A minute's success pays the failure of years. | 120 |
Satya Nadella | In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions. | 120 |
John O'Donohue | A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light. | 120 |
John W. Gardner | One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. | 120 |
Max Beerbohm | There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. | 120 |
Rupert Everett | We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself. | 120 |
Shane Smith | I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist. | 120 |
Stuart Rose | Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure. | 120 |
Andrew Vachss | 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. | 120 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. | 121 |
Ernest Hemingway | Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? | 121 |
Ben Shapiro | The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. | 121 |
Bill Parcells | Success is never final, but failure can be. | 121 |
James Allen | They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure. | 121 |
Lisa Marie Presley | I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it. | 121 |
Samuel Smiles | 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. | 121 |
Scott Adams | The only risk of failure is promotion. | 121 |
T. Boone Pickens | I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. | 121 |
Henry Petroski | Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. | 121 |
Joyce Brothers | The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. | 121 |
Michael Korda | This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. | 121 |
Philipp Meyer | When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success. | 121 |
Annette Funicello | The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. | 121 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. | 122 |
Tennessee Williams | Success and failure are equally disastrous. | 122 |
Zig Ziglar | Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. | 122 |
Kin Hubbard | All the world loves a good loser. | 122 |
Orison Swett Marden | 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. | 122 |
T. Boone Pickens | I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. | 122 |
Andrew Ross Sorkin | No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers. | 122 |
James Surowiecki | Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects. | 122 |
Leonard Mlodinow | A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try. | 122 |
Doc Hastings | As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington. | 122 |
Confucius | Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. | 123 |
Theodore Roosevelt | The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. | 123 |
Coco Chanel | Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. | 123 |
Napoleon Hill | Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. | 123 |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. | 123 |
Jerry Falwell | If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. | 123 |
Norman Cousins | The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. | 123 |
Penn Jillette | Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.' | 123 |
Salman Rushdie | If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. | 123 |
Sharon Stone | I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure. | 123 |
Zac Goldsmith | The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure. | 123 |
Zbigniew Brzezinski | In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option. | 123 |
Andrew Ross Sorkin | In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse. | 123 |
Bryce Dallas Howard | 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. | 123 |
Henry Petroski | I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number. | 123 |
Michael Fassbender | We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen? | 123 |
Chang-Rae Lee | After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it. | 123 |
Dan O'Brien | I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful. | 123 |
Benjamin Franklin | Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. | 124 |
Dan Quayle | If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. | 124 |
J. K. Rowling | Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. | 124 |
Richard Branson | 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. | 124 |
Ben Stiller | The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again. | 124 |
Bodhidharma | But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. | 124 |
Gustav Mahler | The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. | 124 |
Hugh Grant | The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor. | 124 |
Olga Kurylenko | I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning. | 124 |
Paul Watson | I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians. | 124 |
Satya Nadella | It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated. | 124 |
Andrew Ross Sorkin | The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could. | 124 |
Carol Moseley Braun | 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. | 124 |
Henry Petroski | I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are. | 124 |
Nick Frost | Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since. | 124 |
Denis Waitley | To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. | 125 |
Arsene Wenger | Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. | 125 |
David Hasselhoff | Failure usually works for me in the end. | 125 |
Irving Babbitt | 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. | 125 |
Rudy Giuliani | Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it. | 125 |
Sylvester Stallone | I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey. | 125 |
Antony Gormley | Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves. | 125 |
Elias Canetti | The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. | 125 |
Matt Taibbi | The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term. | 125 |
S. Jay Olshansky | The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed. | 125 |
James Howard Kunstler | White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency. | 125 |
George Eliot | Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. | 126 |
Denis Waitley | Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. | 126 |
Ben Shapiro | 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. | 126 |
Russell Simmons | I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others. | 126 |
Demi Moore | Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. | 126 |
Lillian Hellman | Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. | 126 |
Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will. | 126 |
Stephen Rodrick | In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park. | 126 |
John McCarthy | Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. | 126 |
J. K. Rowling | 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. | 201 |
Napoleon Hill | The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. | 201 |
Ravi Zacharias | Success is more difficult to handle than failure. | 201 |
Anna Quindlen | 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. | 201 |
Fred Allen | Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. | 201 |
Graham Greene | Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. | 201 |
Nick Nolte | It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it. | 201 |
Robert Dallek | Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure. | 201 |
Gavin DeGraw | So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure. | 201 |
Madeleine M. Kunin | Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote. | 201 |
Henry Rollins | We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success. | 202 |
Barry Ritholtz | It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure. | 202 |
Naveen Jain | Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure. | 202 |
Chad Hurley | When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure. | 202 |
Henry Petroski | Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst. | 202 |
James Cash Penney | I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance. | 202 |
Michael Morpurgo | Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable. | 202 |
Sarah McLachlan | Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. | 202 |
James Howard Kunstler | I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics. | 202 |
Harry S Truman | My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. | 203 |
Jean-Paul Sartre | All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. | 203 |
Thomas A. Edison | Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. | 203 |
Barton Gellman | First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure. | 203 |
Charles Kettering | 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. | 203 |
George Muller | If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises. | 203 |
James Russell Lowell | Not failure, but low aim, is crime. | 203 |
Peter Diamandis | If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes. | 203 |
Chad Hurley | Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business. | 203 |
Henry Petroski | Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study. | 203 |
Malcolm X | In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. | 204 |
Napoleon Hill | Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. | 204 |
Graham Greene | Failure too is a form of death. | 204 |
Ethan Hawke | The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage. | 204 |
Susan B. Anthony | Failure is impossible. | 205 |
Dave Matthews | I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. | 205 |
Karen Armstrong | Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. | 205 |
Mo Ibrahim | People never confess to failure. They should. | 205 |
Peter Guber | Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work. | 205 |
Ben Okri | The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. | 206 |
Clayton M. Christensen | 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. | 206 |
Gail Sheehy | In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out. | 206 |
James Dyson | Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success. | 206 |
James Russell Lowell | Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. | 206 |
Mario Andretti | If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances. | 206 |
Naveen Jain | How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed. | 206 |
Oriana Fallaci | War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. | 206 |
Robert Dallek | Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time. | 206 |
Saint Basil | 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. | 206 |
Simon Cowell | You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. | 206 |
Amy Tan | I didn't fear failure. I expected failure. | 206 |
Ryan Seacrest | Failure? Scared to death of it. | 206 |
Glenn Beck | Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. | 207 |
Naveen Jain | Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. | 207 |
Sarah McLachlan | Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it. | 207 |
Simon Sinek | The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye. | 208 |
Sandra Bullock | I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on. | 208 |
Wesley Snipes | I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form. | 208 |
William James | There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. | 209 |
Audre Lorde | The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. | 209 |
Ravi Zacharias | By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure. | 209 |
Brett Favre | I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure. | 209 |
H. L. Mencken | The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. | 210 |
Woody Allen | If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. | 210 |
Henry Ward Beecher | Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. | 210 |
John Keats | There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. | 210 |
Anna Quindlen | 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. | 210 |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain. | 210 |
Suze Orman | So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. | 210 |
Ayelet Waldman | 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. | 210 |
James Nesbitt | Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous. | 210 |
Buddha | The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. | 211 |
Les Brown | Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. | 211 |
Elbert Hubbard | Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. | 211 |
Bill O'Reilly | Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation. | 211 |
Charles Kettering | It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. | 211 |
Brooke Shields | I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos. | 211 |
Elon Musk | The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced. | 212 |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure. | 212 |
Lao Tzu | 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. | 213 |
John C. Maxwell | Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them. | 213 |
Tennessee Williams | I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. | 213 |
Alan Greenspan | The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion. | 213 |
Bill Dedman | Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse. | 213 |
Martha Beck | Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure. | 213 |
Roger Daltrey | 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. | 213 |
Daisaku Ikeda | Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness? | 214 |
Dee Dee Myers | The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. | 214 |
Laurence J. Peter | The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. | 214 |
Douglas Coupland | Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. | 215 |
Alejandro Jodorowsky | Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction. | 216 |
Tony Robbins | There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. | 217 |
Al Gore | If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. | 217 |
Ben Shapiro | Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will. | 217 |
Vivek Wadhwa | No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad. | 217 |
John Ortberg | Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions. | 217 |
Bryant H. McGill | Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. | 218 |
Harvey Fierstein | In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. | 218 |
Mike Krzyzewski | 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. | 218 |
Nolan Bushnell | Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress. | 218 |
Marshall McLuhan | 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. | 219 |
Daniel Kahneman | An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same. | 219 |
Phil McGraw | If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure. | 220 |
Jimmy Carter | It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail. | 220 |
Aeschylus | The wisest of the wise may err. | 220 |
Eric Ries | Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works. | 220 |
John Mayer | Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. | 220 |
Scott Adams | Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. | 220 |
James Altucher | My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure. | 220 |
Michael Ignatieff | I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello. | 220 |
Lyndon B. Johnson | The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. | 221 |
Paulo Coelho | I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. | 222 |
Bernie Siegel | What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting. | 222 |
Jesse Jackson | Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters. | 222 |
Miley Cyrus | There's no right or wrong, success or failure. | 222 |
Serj Tankian | Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. | 222 |
Troy Polamalu | I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you. | 222 |
James Taylor | It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure. | 222 |
Mandy Moore | I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess. | 223 |
Elliott Abrams | In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely. | 224 |
Robert Dallek | 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. | 224 |
Douglas Coupland | Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. | 225 |
Dylan Moran | The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line. | 225 |
Howard Schultz | I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure. | 225 |
Nancy Gibbs | Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager. | 225 |
John James Audubon | I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure. | 225 |
Michael Franti | My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should. | 225 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. | 226 |
George Eliot | There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. | 226 |
Ben Bernanke | 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. | 226 |
Douglas Coupland | Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you. | 226 |
Michael Leunig | A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. | 226 |
Oscar Wilde | Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. | 301 |
Eckhart Tolle | Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. | 301 |
Zig Ziglar | If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. | 301 |
Douglas Coupland | If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure. | 301 |
Sonia Sotomayor | You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. | 301 |
Jeb Bush | Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. | 301 |
Ben Carson | With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success. | 302 |
Oprah Winfrey | Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction. | 302 |
Zig Ziglar | You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. | 302 |
Gail Collins | The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers. | 302 |
Naveen Jain | When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks. | 302 |
Carl Sandburg | All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. | 303 |
Orlando Bloom | Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. | 303 |
Will Self | This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'. | 303 |
Javier Bardem | There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild. | 303 |
George Eliot | There are many victories worse than a defeat. | 304 |
Alan Rickman | I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure. | 304 |
Daniel Radcliffe | I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.' | 304 |
Matthew McConaughey | I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill. | 304 |
Orlando Bloom | There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. | 304 |
Randeep Hooda | I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head. | 304 |
John Ortberg | When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human. | 305 |
Elon Musk | If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure. | 306 |
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. | 306 |
James A. Baldwin | 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. | 306 |
Jim Rohn | Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. | 307 |
Abraham Lincoln | My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. | 308 |
Napoleon Hill | Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. | 308 |
Oprah Winfrey | Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure. | 308 |
Cate Blanchett | I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure. | 308 |
Susan Sontag | Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. | 308 |
Jim Rohn | Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. | 309 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. | 309 |
Mae West | To err is human, but it feels divine. | 309 |
Sylvester Stallone | Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. | 309 |
Moby | When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. | 309 |
Hunter S. Thompson | One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. | 310 |
John C. Maxwell | Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. | 310 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | 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. | 311 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. | 312 |
Bill Dedman | Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure. | 312 |
Michio Kaku | Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear. | 313 |
Oprah Winfrey | I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. | 314 |
Henry Miller | No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. | 314 |
Michele Bachmann | People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily. | 314 |
Marjane Satrapi | If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think. | 316 |
Tina Brown | I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype. | 316 |
Barack Obama | The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt. | 317 |
Elbert Hubbard | A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. | 320 |
Elbert Hubbard | The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. | 321 |
Camille Paglia | 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. | 321 |
Napoleon Hill | No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. | 322 |
Joyce Meyer | 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. | 322 |
Gordon B. Hinckley | I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. | 322 |
Sylvester Stallone | It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. | 322 |
Tullian Tchividjian | 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. | 322 |
Orison Swett Marden | The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty. | 323 |
Betty White | If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me! | 324 |
Paul Auster | Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done. | 324 |
Albert Einstein | I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. | 325 |
Ambrose Bierce | A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. | 401 |
Francis Ford Coppola | The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me. | 401 |
Rick Perry | We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure. | 401 |
Napoleon Hill | Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. | 402 |
Eric Hoffer | It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. | 402 |
Richard Branson | 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? | 405 |
Mike Birbiglia | I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear. | 405 |
Trent Reznor | I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. | 405 |
Barack Obama | The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. | 408 |
George Eliot | The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. | 408 |
John Wooden | Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be. | 408 |
Deepak Chopra | Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone. | 410 |
Ernest Hemingway | Man is not made for defeat. | 415 |
Barack Obama | In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. | 417 |
George Bernard Shaw | When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. | 417 |
Dick Cavett | The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored. | 422 |
Nelson Mandela | In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine. | 423 |
Richard Branson | Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop. | 424 |
Joyce Carol Oates | I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life. | 426 |
David Suzuki | The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. | 501 |
George Eliot | I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. | 508 |
George Clooney | 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. | 509 |
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. | 513 |
Penn Jillette | A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.' | 513 |
Ben Bernanke | Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic. | 515 |
Elon Musk | There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. | 517 |
Martha Beck | Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster. | 517 |
Steven Spielberg | Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. | 518 |
Ambrose Bierce | Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. | 519 |
Zig Ziglar | Remember that failure is an event, not a person. | 520 |
Steven Spielberg | 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. | 524 |
Rush Limbaugh | It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned. | 525 |
Seth Shostak | Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards. | 608 |
Steven Pinker | I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. | 610 |
Barack Obama | 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. | 706 |
George Bernard Shaw | Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him. | 712 |
Elliott Abrams | The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace. | 713 |
Mason Cooley | I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. | 713 |
John Updike | The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. | 802 |
George Bernard Shaw | My reputation grows with every failure. | 803 |
P. J. O'Rourke | Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution. | 807 |
Ezra Taft Benson | Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.' | 810 |
P. J. O'Rourke | The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. | 901 |
Douglas Coupland | Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. | 912 |
P. J. O'Rourke | Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. | 1214 |
P. J. O'Rourke | 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. | 1420 |
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