Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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.
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.
I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be
By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; the process is its own reward. Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And if they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.
That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure. . . In reality all artists speak first to themselves and then to an audience.
Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.
Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.