Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
I still have a great friendship with my eldest son’s mum. She’s my mate. We have this wonderful son who’s 6 ft. 3, gorgeous, and I’m his dad. I’ve not been a total failure.
That sense of failure, I don’t know where people put it who don’t write songs and aren’t able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you’re stupid.
I am living on the razor’s edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation – between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it’s better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
I don’t take success seriously. For me, failure is a constant.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
I cannot think of any venture I have initiated where an earlier failure wasn’t an important precursor to an eventual success.
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
You’ll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
The war on drugs is a joke. We spend $40 billion a year, and the proof that it’s a failure is that any kid can get almost any drug they want in any city in America within half an hour.
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.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.
