Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.
It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
Never permit failure to become a habit.
I was stained by failure.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference. . . instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.
You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate. . . . The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation.
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.
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.
We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.
I have insecurities. But whatever I'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am I afraid of?" I bet the average successful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had success. I've had far more failures than I've had successes. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of.
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.
The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.
99 percent of success is built on failure.
The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.
Failure to die is always appreciated.
