My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.