I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
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.
At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
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.
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.
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
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.
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
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.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
