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Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.
My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.
The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.
It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent
I tend to avoid interviews, I don't have a publicist and fear of failure is still very much alive in my personal life.
Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.
My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.