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My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Success is often built on the shoulders of failure - from which new configurations emerge.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want
That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
Dan Marino never won the big game. Does that mean his career is a failure? No, not at all.
Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.
The Prince interview was a failure. Huge, but most memorable 'cause he didn't say anything.
If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure.
There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet.
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.