c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.
— Mandy Moore
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
— Felix Dennis
I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.
— Ben Affleck
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.
— Tullian Tchividjian
What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
— Tullian Tchividjian
You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation.
— Jon Oringer
George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.
— Robert J. Sawyer
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
— William Hurt
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
— Amy Sedaris
I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
— Brett Favre
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
— James Taylor
Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.
— Suki Waterhouse
I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past - they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way.
— Scott Derrickson
When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
— J. D. Vance
Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
— J. D. Vance
In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.
— Lupe Fiasco
There's no right or wrong, success or failure.
— Miley Cyrus
As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.
— Dee Dee Myers
It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.
— Nick Nolte
I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.
— Paul Feig
So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
— Jeremy Irons
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
— Jeremy Irons
I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it.
— David Thewlis
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
— Denis Waitley
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
— Carl Sandburg
I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
— Alain Ducasse
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
— Jeff Goodell
I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
— Olga Kurylenko
If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
— Bryan Cranston
Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is.
— Guy Kawasaki
No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
I think, with Hank Paulson, the concept of a bailout was anathema to him from day one. He was a Republican; he's a free marketeer. He believes in capitalism, and part of capitalism is believing in failure. And so the idea of bailing out an institution, I think, went against every part of him.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
I think to visualize failure as you're starting off is really a bad thing to do.
— Marcia Gay Harden
When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.
— Chad Hurley
Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.
— Chad Hurley
Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
— Dan Gilbert
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
— James Russell Lowell
It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.
— Alan Arkin
'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.
— Alan Arkin
The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
— Jon Meacham
I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends.
— Nora Ephron
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.
— Eleanor Catton
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
— Gail Sheehy
Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.
— Kumail Nanjiani
There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild. 
— Javier Bardem
I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.
— Lee Unkrich
Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
— Edgar Ramirez
I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
— Ted Sarandos
The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.
— John Caudwell
I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.
— Russell Simmons
People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.
— Russell Simmons
When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves.
— Simon McBurney
Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.
— Sun Yat-sen
I think, in storytelling, people want to see triumph, and so it's usually nice to start with failure and see someone somehow rise above it. People like to see people try. And they like to see people fail for comedy, and they like to see people succeed for the drama and emotion.
— Nick Kroll
I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.
— Maria Semple
I think if you just eat healthy, you're active, and you don't beat yourself up, you're setting yourself up to win rather than setting yourself up for failure.
— Kristin Cavallari
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
— Harvey Fierstein
All the world loves a good loser.
— Kin Hubbard
It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.
— Craig Ferguson
Failure worries me; nobody wants to fail. There is a fear that one day, films will not come my way, or if someone doesn't watch your film, that is a worrying point. It is unpredictable in the industry.
— Alia Bhatt
I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.
— Alia Bhatt
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
— Carlos Ghosn
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
— Charles M. Schwab
I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.
— Tony McCoy
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
— Lisa Marie Presley
From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.
— Tony McCoy
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
— Rahm Emanuel
When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems.
— Whitney Wolfe
Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.
— Whitney Wolfe
If you truly want to find a meaningful relationship, you've got to find yourself first and learn to be confident in your own skin. Don't sacrifice anything about who you are to be with someone. That's setting yourself up for failure.
— Whitney Wolfe
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
— Bob Woodward
One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.
— Nina Easton
When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.
— Olly Murs
I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
— Tony Kushner
Whenever a chef cooks for his own ego rather than his guests, he/she set themselves up for ridicule and failure. In the end, it's the service industry. Our goal is to make our guests happy through our cooking.
— Johnny Iuzzini
Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.
— Mel Gibson
Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.
— Max Baucus
Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.
— Michael Morpurgo
I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
— Brooke Shields
The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
— Darin Strauss
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.
— Sting
Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.
— Juan Williams
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
— Richard Lamm
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
— J. Paul Getty
So much has changed in our business. E-books, that's been one of the principal developments. There has been also the failure of Borders and the rise of Amazon, just to name two others.
— Sonny Mehta
No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.
— Vivek Wadhwa
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
— Tennessee Williams
I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.
— Ron Perlman
Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.
— Dean Kamen
Success is boring... failure is exciting and more entertaining.
— Anupam Kher
I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
— Roger Daltrey
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
— Henry Paulson
One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.
— Anupam Kher
It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.
— Anupam Kher
I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.
— Anupam Kher
Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.
— Ann Leckie
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
— Oriana Fallaci
I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it was hard to even get those because universities wouldn't hire me as a real writer.
— Sandra Cisneros
Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.
— Will Arnett
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.
— John James Audubon
What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.
— Bernie Siegel
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
— George Herbert
Failure usually works for me in the end.
— David Hasselhoff
International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.
— Raoul Peck
The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
— S. Jay Olshansky
I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.
— Ariel Pink
I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
— Bodhidharma
Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure.
— Robert J. Shiller
Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
— Marilyn Ferguson
My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'
— Alan King
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
— James Cash Penney
I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
— Eric Ries
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
— Eric Ries
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.
— Peter Berg
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
— John Banville
In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
— Bruce Forsyth
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
— Karen Armstrong
A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.
— Leonard Mlodinow
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
— H. G. Wells
Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.
— Steve Ballmer
I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
— Debra Winger
I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
— David Walliams
'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.
— Karan Mahajan
The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
— Karan Mahajan
Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
— Elvis Costello
Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.
— Rupert Everett
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
— Robert Harris
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
— Bernard Baruch
The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
— Ethan Hawke
Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.
— Rob Zombie
When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure.
— Niecy Nash
Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.
— Mike Mills
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
— Mitch Daniels
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.
— Deborah Moggach
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
— Henry Petroski
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
— Henry Petroski
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.
— Henry Petroski
I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.
— Henry Petroski
Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.
— Henry Petroski
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
— Anna Quindlen
I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.
— Wesley Snipes
Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
— Zach Anner
I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.
— Mike Krzyzewski
If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that's a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I can make that claim because we have a working model of life's morphing and molding without it.
— Kyle Hill
We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.
— Peter Ackroyd
In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.
— Stephen Rodrick
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
— Ben Okri
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
— Ben Okri
I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.
— Akshay Kumar
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
— Gloria Swanson
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
— T. Boone Pickens
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
— T. Boone Pickens
When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.
— Jane McGonigal
Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.
— Demi Moore
Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.
— Sue Townsend
I think our failure as a caucus has been not to focus on economic issues. I think we - and I'm supportive of all the issues that - that we talk about, but you need an economic - a robust, economic message that - that covers everybody.
— Tim Ryan
I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.
— James Howard Kunstler
With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.
— Ronald Kessler
Failure? Scared to death of it.
— Ryan Seacrest
I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.
— Tony Fadell
There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
— Patrick Stump
I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
— Shinzo Abe
When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.
— Shinzo Abe
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
— Samuel Smiles
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
— Charles Kettering
Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
— Billy Dee Williams
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
— Saint Basil
Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of. Americans say that they want leaders who will take on these problems.
— Atul Gawande
Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.
— Peter Guber
Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.
— Peter Guber
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
— Arsene Wenger
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
— Edward Abbey
Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.
— Antony Gormley
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
— William Howard Taft
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
— Miriam Toews
Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.
— Scott Weiss
I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
— Heston Blumenthal
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
— Dan Buettner
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
— Roddy Doyle
In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.
— Mark Frauenfelder
But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
— Thomas Haden Church
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
— Bob Ainsworth
I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.
— Ann Voskamp
That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
— Berkeley Breathed
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
— Larry Elder
We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
— Pat Summitt
I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.
— Fat Joe
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
— B. C. Forbes
Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.
— Pawan Kalyan
Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.
— Burton Richter
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
— Jonathan Raban
I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
— Charles Schwab
As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
— M. Stanton Evans
It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.
— George Matthew Adams
The hippy movement was a failure.
— Joe Strummer
You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good.
— Heidi Roizen
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
— Natalie Goldberg
Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
— Malcolm Mclaren
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.
— Toby Young
There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see. 
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.
— Erin Gruwell
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
— Jean Kerr
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
— Allan Bloom
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
— Johann Most
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
— Gordon Parks
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
— Peter Morgan
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
— Frederick William Robertson
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
— Brennan Manning
I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
— Michael Buble
When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
— Laura Fraser
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
— Francis Picabia
If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.
— Tim Harford
I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
— Pierce Brown
I love language, and I love the failure of language.
— Nate Lowman
The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It's unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt.
— David Malpass
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
— William Irwin Thompson
I couldn't stand the thought of not succeeding failure was more than I could deal with. 
— Everett McGill
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.
— George Hickenlooper
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.
— Jerome Lawrence
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
— Rupert Holmes
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
— Rosalynn Carter
I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
— Tom Hopkins
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
— Dorothea Brande
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
— Alice James
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
— S. I. Hayakawa
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
— Daniel Inouye
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
— Victor Kiam
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
— Millicent Fawcett
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
— Jim Palmer
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
— Errol Flynn
I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.
— Scott Brown
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.
— Michael Crawford
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
— Dale Dauten
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
— Anne Baxter
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
— Hildegard Knef
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
— Arthur C. Danto
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
— Rosalyn S. Yalow
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.
— Solomon Asch
Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
— Jenn Proske
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
— Pele
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
— Euripides
Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
— Johnny Weir
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
— Erich Fromm
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
— Ann Landers
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
— Bryant H. McGill
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
— Menachem Begin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
— Audrey Hepburn
Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
— Loretta Young
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
— Satchel Paige
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
— Richard Bach
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
— Zoe Kravitz
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
— Nick Cannon
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
— Confucius
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
— Bruce Lee
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. 
— Martin Luther King, Jr.