Quotes about Failure
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I've always wanted to hit that, like, '13 Going on 30;' 'Failure to Launch,' Matthew McConaughey; 'What Happens in Vegas,' Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher' wave.
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?
It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
Failure's a natural part of life.
The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.
I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste.
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.
As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
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