3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Trent Reznor I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
3 December 2020 Confucius Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
3 December 2020 Ann Landers There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
3 December 2020 Kevin Costner Failure doesn’t kill you… it increases your desire to make something happen.
3 December 2020 Billy Dee Williams Failure’s not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Theodor Herzl Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
3 December 2020 Orlando Bloom There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
3 December 2020 Bonnie Hunt I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.
3 December 2020 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?
3 December 2020 B. C. Forbes The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
3 December 2020 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.’
3 December 2020 Lily Tomlin Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
3 December 2020 Bryan Ferry It’s not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John Drinkwater So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jerome Lawrence You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater – why the better it is for all of us.
3 December 2020 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.
