3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Javier Bardem There is no middle ground in Hollywood you’re a failure or you’re a success. That mentality is wild.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Doug 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Justin Guarini Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.
3 December 2020 Humphry Davy The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Cliff Richard But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won’t fear that failure.
3 December 2020 Alan Shearer We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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!
3 December 2020 Alan Hansen The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
3 December 2020 Christian Marclay With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
