How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
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.
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
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I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
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.
