I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
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.
International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.
That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.
Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure.
Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
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.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Life is nothing but a bunch of experiences. There's no such thing as success or failure.
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
I think, in storytelling, people want to see triumph, and so it's usually nice to start with failure and see someone somehow rise above it. People like to see people try. And they like to see people fail for comedy, and they like to see people succeed for the drama and emotion.
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
