There's a sense here that failure is not the death knell, that it actually can be a badge of honor and a learning experience. All of our country would benefit from having that attitude towards failure.
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Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.
Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
You’re never a loser until you quit trying.
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
There’s this weird idea that success is a doorway, and once open, the path beyond is straight and clear. But success is just a moment, a step. The forward road comes from continuing to try—and fail. Failure and rejection don’t cease to be a part of it, unless you stop trying to grow/reach/make/move.
Oh, since I was young, been grooving to my own drum Ain't that many teachers show me my potential Felt like a failure, momma said you know better Future in my hands
These things were happening in my life where I was like, 'Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.' I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn't saying, 'I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee's.'
The average college GPA for a self-made millionaire is somewhere in the low B range. But at some crucial point in their lives, somebody told them they were too stupid to do something and they set out to prove the bastards wrong.
We all get rejected. We all get left out of cool projects. We all get ignored. We also torture ourselves wondering about the circumstances of rejection or exclusion. But... The spotlight can't always be on us. Part of being a pro is figuring out how to not take that personally.
I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Fai…
Failure is inevitable, unavoidable. But failure should never get the last word. You have to hold on to what you want. You have to not take no for an answer, and take what’s coming to you. Never give in. Never give up. Stand up. Stand up and take it.
— Bruce William Harper, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
It hurt my feelings. I was getting jokes made at my expense on every late-night show, people were making fun of me. I was really depressed. And because of that, and because my show was cancelled, I was looked at as a failure in this business. No one would touch me. I had no agent, no possibility of…
My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before. It's now up to me to make amends. And that starts by never repeating the mistakes I've made.
Our fathers were our models for God, if our fathers failed, what does that tell you about God?
Dad had one great dream, a dream that had been handed down from generation to generation of male Bundys: to build their own room and live separately from their wives. Sadly, they all failed.
The process can be tough sometimes. But your character is being tested. Strength is being gained.