c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
— Dee Dee Myers
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
— Guy Kawasaki
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.
— Emanuel Steward
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
— Jonah Hill
Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.
— Pete Sessions
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.
— Michael Savage
Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.
— Atul Gawande
I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.
— Rick Santelli
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
— Ravi Zacharias
The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
— Dylan Moran
What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure.
— Sharon Stone
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.
— Ben Shapiro
Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.
— Robert Dallek
So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.
— Keyshawn Johnson
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
— Jim Cooper
In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
— Gail Sheehy
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
— Barry Ritholtz
Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.
— Suki Waterhouse
One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it's in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life.
— David Gregory
'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.
— Monique Roffey
It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
— Satya Nadella
When we set up our kids for failure, we set up our workforce for failure, and we set up our economy for failure. I can't emphasize enough the importance, the absolute importance, of education in achieving long-term economic growth.
— Susana Martinez
When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
— Pat Summitt
If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.
— Sun Yat-sen
Writing is harder than acting. I enjoy acting for just the brevity with which you can be in the experience of doing it. Writing is kind of more satisfying in that you're creating a world and doing something that feels bigger, but it's very time consuming and has a higher threshold for failure.
— Justin Theroux
The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.
— James R. Clapper
The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly.
— Michael Frome
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
— Coretta Scott King
I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.
— Nick Saban
My citizen activism is a direct outgrowth of a classical and fiscally conservative training in economics at Harvard. It is a perspective rooted in one of the most important concepts in economics - the need for government intervention in the presence of a market failure.
— Peter Navarro
Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.
— Paul Craig Roberts
The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
— Adam Grant
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
— Jerry Rice
The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.
— Henry Petroski
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
— Gary Ryan Blair
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
— Michael Crawford
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
— Rickey Henderson
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
— Jesse Jackson
It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.
— Ben Foster
Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
— Daley Thompson
We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
— Campbell Brown
I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.
— Darcey Bussell
Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.
— Seth Shostak
I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
— Mike Birbiglia
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
— John Burroughs
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
— George W. Bush
I grew up in a household where I learned five things from my old man. You know what they were? You're no good. You're a failure. You're not going to amount to anything. Don't trust nobody, and don't tell nobody your business. When I lost to Larry Holmes in 1982, I felt all five of those things smacked me right across the face.
— Gerry Cooney
An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.
— Daniel Kahneman
I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.
— Amitabh Bachchan
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
— David Mamet
Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best chance of success, but to those with the ability to 'sell' their propaganda. Without grasping logical chains of deduction, the average voter will never be able to discover the error that the ruler makes.
— Murray Rothbard
I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.
— Arjun Kapoor
Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure.
— Ryan Holiday
I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.
— Nick Harkaway
Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
— Warren Farrell
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.
— J. D. Vance
Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
— Anupam Kher
The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
— Clayton M. Christensen
My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.
— Hideo Kojima
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.
— Eric Ries
Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.
— Eric Ries
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
— P. J. O'Rourke
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
— Barack Obama
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
— Barack Obama
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
— Barack Obama
President Obama's astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of American men and women.
— Mitt Romney
We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
— Joyce Meyer
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
— George Bernard Shaw
My reputation grows with every failure.
— George Bernard Shaw
It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.
— Rush Limbaugh
In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.
— Nelson Mandela
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
— Salman Rushdie
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
— Douglas Coupland
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
— Douglas Coupland
The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'
— Robert Kiyosaki
I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.
— Elliott Abrams
In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely.
— Elliott Abrams
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
— Mason Cooley
Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'
— Ezra Taft Benson
Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
— Penn Jillette
A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
— Penn Jillette
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
— Steven Pinker
Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.
— Ben Bernanke
In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.
— Ben Bernanke
The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis substantial fiscal resources were necessary. 
— Ben Bernanke
I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
— Steven Spielberg
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
— Orison Swett Marden
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
— Orlando Bloom
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
— Orlando Bloom
If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
— Peter Diamandis
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
— Jerry Saltz
It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
— Sylvester Stallone
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
— Sylvester Stallone
I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.
— Tina Brown
If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.
— Anne Wojcicki
Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure.
— Alain de Botton
A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.
— Michael Leunig
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
— Trent Reznor
When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
— Charles Duhigg
Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
— Nancy Gibbs
We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.
— Emmanuel Macron
For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.
— Peter Jackson
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
— Howard Schultz
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
— George Eliot
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
— George Eliot
I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.
— Ruth Rendell
Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.
— Ben Shapiro
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
— Jim Rohn
My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.
— George Clooney
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
— Barton Gellman
First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
— Barton Gellman
I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
— Laura Dern
A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.
— Mark McKinnon
I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
— Octavia Spencer
Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
— James Surowiecki
Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.
— James Surowiecki
I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.
— Alessia Cara
In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work.
— Pope Benedict XVI
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
— Michael Gove
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
— Jeb Bush
I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
— Paul Watson
Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.
— Sebastian Thrun
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
— Sydney Pollack
I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
People never confess to failure. They should.
— Mo Ibrahim
The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.
— Mike Gallagher
Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.
— Mo Ibrahim
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
— Camille Paglia
With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
— Ben Carson
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.
— Robert Dallek
The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.
— Robert Dallek
Failure's a natural part of life.
— John Malkovich
I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.
— Spike Jonze
There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'
— Spike Jonze
Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.
— Michio Kaku
Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it.
— Naveen Jain
How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.
— Naveen Jain
In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.
— Naveen Jain
When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
— Naveen Jain
Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
— Naveen Jain
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.
— Henry B. Eyring
The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.
— Dick Cavett
You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.
— Roger Ailes
There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul the real question is what comes afterward. Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve the squabbling likely to arise over numerous issues and bring lasting stability to one of Iraq's most diverse and challenging provinces? Failure to do so could lead to ISIS 3.0. 
— David Petraeus
Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.
— David Petraeus
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
— Eric Hoffer
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
— Elbert Hubbard
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
— Michael Korda
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.
— Michael Korda
The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.
— Mike Pompeo
If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.
— Mike Pompeo
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
— Bill Dedman
Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.
— Bill Dedman
Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.
— George Michael
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
— David Suzuki
Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.
— James Nesbitt
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
— Harry S Truman
We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.
— Rick Perry
Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.
— Jillian Michaels
Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern.
— Jillian Michaels
I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
— Walter Cronkite
The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
— Walter Cronkite
The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.
— Marsha Blackburn
Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.
— Albert Brooks
The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.
— Francis Ford Coppola
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
— Hugh Grant
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
— John Ortberg
All actors should experience public failure.
— Olivia Wilde
Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.
— Rudolf Steiner
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
— James A. Baldwin
E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don't know what they're doing; they have no ideas... everything they do just is a failure.
— Chelsea Handler
The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
— Pat Buchanan
There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.
— Maajid Nawaz
People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.
— Michele Bachmann
Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
— Mahesh Babu
The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.
— Ashwin Sanghi
Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.
— Mariella Frostrup
I'm scared of failure so much more than any of the other girls I compete against that I work so much harder than they possibly could. I'm totally down with spiders and frogs and heights and snakes - everything I'm cool with it. 
— Ronda Rousey
I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
— Bryce Dallas Howard
My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
— Natalie Cole
I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
— Natalie Cole
I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
— Natalie Cole
George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.
— Andrew Breitbart
Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.
— Kevin McCarthy
Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
— Karen Salmansohn
Failure is your invention.
— Sophia Amoruso
If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure - I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy - than raising too much money in the first round.
— Steve Jurvetson
Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.
— Payal Kadakia
Every large brand has franchisees and stores that don't make it. It's unfortunate, and Cold Stone did everything it could to support its franchisees, but some failure rate is part of the business.
— Doug Ducey
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.
— E. O. Wilson
My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.
— Mother Angelica
Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.
— Trisha Yearwood
I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
— James Mattis
While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.
— Lewis Howes
The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'
— Andra Day
When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.
— Ginni Rometty
If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.
— Scott Adams
I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.
— Sam Altman
Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process.
— Steve Blank
While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.
— Steve Blank
In corporations, the penalty for repeated failure on known tasks is being reassigned to other tasks or asked to leave the company.
— Steve Blank
While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
— Fabrizio Moreira
Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
— Fabrizio Moreira
There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.
— Fabrizio Moreira
It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
— Fabrizio Moreira
I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
— Fabrizio Moreira
It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure.
— Kimbal Musk
The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.
— Paul Craig Roberts
I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'
— Kristen Stewart
I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
— Amy Purdy
Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.
— Ryan Holiday
I don't think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do a film, you weigh the pros and cons before taking a call. Only when you run out of patience, get insecure, and feel your career is heading nowhere do you sign anything that comes your way.
— Rakul Preet Singh
I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie. 
— Rakul Preet Singh
There is failure in every industry there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life. 
— Yami Gautam
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
— James Altucher
I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
— Jonathan Kozol
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
— Jonathan Kozol
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
— Richard Flanagan
While it's important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it's also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be.
— John Rampton
We've all experienced those days when we feel like an absolute failure. It's a normal feeling when things don't go as exactly planned. And, when we feel like that, it's challenging to think of yourself as a successful individual.
— John Rampton
We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.
— Christie Brinkley
The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.
— Jay Samit
Success and failure are equally surprising.
— Daryl Hall
The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
— Gail Collins
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.
— Matt Taibbi
I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.
— John Grant
The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.
— Sherrod Brown
I think there is a failure in foreign policy. And you have to acknowledge that under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton was the architect of that foreign policy. Whether it was malevolent or not, I don't know.
— Mike McCaul
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
— Paul Auster
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
— Rick Perlstein
I wanted to give an honest insight into a consuming Tour. It's turned out pretty interesting because there aren't many books out there documenting someone's failure.
— Bradley Wiggins
I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
— Randeep Hooda
I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
— Randeep Hooda
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
— Amy Tan
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
— Amy Tan
If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.
— Marjane Satrapi
I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
— Aaron Sorkin
Failure to curb temperature increases will impact all countries, Ireland included, but with the most immediate and drastic effects being felt, in many instances, by the most vulnerable countries and communities.
— Enda Kenny
I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.
— John Battelle
The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.
— Ron Fournier
Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.
— Rudy Giuliani
My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.
— Michael Franti
Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.
— Chuck Schumer
Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill, has said the failure of that bill was a function of the lack of an ID card system.
— Lawrence Kudlow
It's a strange failure of the literary world that Updike never quite received his due. Despite winning two Pulitzers and two National Book Awards and countless other awards and honours, he was denied the Nobel.
— Justin Cartwright
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
— Al Gore
I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.
— Michael Ignatieff
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.
— Al Sharpton
I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
— Marissa Mayer
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
— Sarah McLachlan
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.
— Sarah McLachlan
If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!
— Betty White
If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.
— Phil McGraw
The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.
— Michael T. Flynn