From a very early age, the message is drilled into our heads: Failure is bad; failure means you didn’t study or prepare; failure means you slacked off or—worse!—aren’t smart enough to begin with. Thus, failure is something to be ashamed of.
The ability to overcome failure--to live through it and move on--is crucial. If we are not willing to face failure--if we don't have the skills to survive it--we have precluded any real creativity or risk. Failure may never become our friend, but if ...
The first pancake is always a failure.
I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.
Failure leads to a decrease in motivation only when it is accepted as failure. Failure leads students to improve when they see it is a stepping stone on the road to success.
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.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
You’re thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. Failure is a teacher – a harsh one, perhaps, but the best. You say you have a desk full of rejected manuscripts? That’s great! Every one of those manuscripts was rejecte...
Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan.
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
If you Don't where you going, look back and see where you have come from
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perc...
If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.
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 ...
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.
Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
