Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.
A famous man once said, ‘A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.’ Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.
In one world, effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you’re not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn’t need effort. In the other world, effort is what makes you smart or talented.
Whether in success or in failure, I’m proud of every single movie I’ve ever directed.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Most girls are taught to avoid risk and failure. We’re taught to smile pretty, play it safe, get all A’s. Boys, on the other hand, are taught to play rough, swing high, crawl to the top of the monkey bars, and then just jump off headfirst.
My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It’s been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
Not failure, but low aim is sin.
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
You can try to make the right decision all the time, but it’s better to just make a decision. I have done wrong so many times, but nine times out of 10, I have learned from my failure. Don’t wait for something; just go for it.
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
I tell my team you have to aim for success, but assume failure.
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.
The thing I always say to people is this: ‘If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.’
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
It’s not about failure; it’s about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.
Failure is knowledge, and knowledge is success.
There’s always failure. And there’s always disappointment. And there’s always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
My time at Real Madrid wasn’t a failure. I played 120 matches, I scored 28 goals, and I played an average of 30 games a season. What’s more, I won three trophies: La Liga, a Copa del Rey, and a Supercopa de Espana.
We’ve been conditioned to think that quitting is a failure, a form of failure. How do we know that that’s true?
