When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.
I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
Failure? Scared to death of it.
Don't come home a failure.
Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
The hippy movement was a failure.
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success.
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
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.
Failure is impossible.
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?
Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
