Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
~By Billy Dee Williams ~
The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
~By Doc Hastings ~
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
~By Montgomery Clift ~
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.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~
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.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
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.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
~By Bob Feller ~
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.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
~By Alan Shearer ~
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.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
~By Cormac McCarthy ~
In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
~By Simon Hoggart ~
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
If you try to do your best there is no failure.
~By Mike Farrell ~
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
~By Glenn Beck ~
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
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.
~By Morton Hunt ~
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
~By Albert Camus ~
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
~By Don Nickles ~
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.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
~By Orson Welles ~
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
~By Colin R. Davis ~
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
~By Denis Waitley ~
The only risk of failure is promotion.
~By Scott Adams ~
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.
~By John B. S. Haldane ~
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
~By Og Mandino ~
I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
~By Noel Coward ~
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
~By Tommy Lasorda ~
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
~By Frederick Smith ~
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~By Mary Pickford ~
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
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.
~By Lao Tzu ~
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
~By Rodney Alexander ~
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
~By Ross Perot ~
Failure is success if we learn from it.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
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.
~By Fred Allen ~
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
~By Robert Half ~
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.
~By Chuck Barris ~
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
~By Jack Lemmon ~
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.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
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.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
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.
~By John McCarthy ~
Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
~By Jerry Bruckheimer ~
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.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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.
~By Mary Pickford ~
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
~By Matthew Perry ~
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.
~By Michael Baden ~
Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
~By H. Stanley Judd ~
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
~By Serj Tankian ~
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
~By John Burroughs ~
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
~By Mia Hamm ~
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.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
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.
~By Tom Baker ~
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
~By Mike Murdock ~
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.
~By Louis E. Boone ~
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.
~By Lucille Ball ~
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."
~By Florence Scovel Shinn ~
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
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.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
~By Donn Pearce ~
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.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
~By Robert Redford ~
Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
~By Douglas Wood ~
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
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.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
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.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
~By Jim McMahon ~
And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.
~By Will Wright ~
I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
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.
~By Shane Leslie ~
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
~By Iain Duncan Smith ~
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
~By James Tobin ~
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
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.
~By John Poindexter ~
I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
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.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~
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.
~By John Hersey ~
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
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.
~By Gifford Pinchot ~
I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.
~By Corey Hart ~
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
~By Roger von Oech ~
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
~By Rosalind Russell ~
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
~By Steve Forbes ~
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.
~By Garry Shandling ~
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
~By Robert Browning ~
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
~By Napolean Hill ~
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