Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love. "

Related Quotes:

" The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.' "

Robert Kiyosaki

" There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie. "

" The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable. "

" As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion. "

M. Stanton Evans

" If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up. "

" The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction. "

" War remains the decisive human failure. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure. "

" I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative. "

" I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays. "

" Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. "

" Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen. "

" When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. "

George Bernard Shaw

" I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital. "

" Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes. "

" Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share. "

" The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success. "

Brendon Burchard

" Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason. "

" I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc. "

" So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. "

" Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain. "

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

" Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" I can easily be lying in the gutter with someone kicking mud in my face tomorrow as easily as I can float in the clouds with angels sprinkling fairy dust in my hair. So, I make an effort to treat both success and failure equally. "

Shenaz Treasury

" 'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure. "

Fabrizio Moreira

" When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems. "

" The wisest of the wise may err. "

" If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. "

Rosalynn Carter

" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "

" The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed. "

" The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. "