I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.
War is an admission of failure
Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.
Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.
What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher.
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.
Any customer that walks away, disrespected and defeated, represents tens of thousands of dollars out the door, in addition to the failure of a promise the brand made in the first place. You can't see it but it's happening, daily.
The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
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.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
When success turns a man's head he faces failure
Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.
Failure is the mechanism of learning.
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.
Failure is not meant to be final and fatal. . . . It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.