Failure usually works for me in the end.
Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture’s failure.
Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.
I didn’t fear failure. I expected failure.
A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.
When we’re in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment’s notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.
I want to become a star. Failure is not an option.
Yes – I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Failure will happen. It’s a normal part of the startup process.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
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.
I’d like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
There’s no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
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.
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.
Definitely, it’s a fear of failure that drives me.
All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron’s. He came to power promising not to ‘bang on about Europe’ and ended up having the continent’s name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.
I think it’s one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there’s so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
