In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
~ Andy Murray
It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.
~ Saul Alinsky
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
~ Louis C. K.
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
~ Christian Marclay
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
~ James Cameron
If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
~ Mario Andretti
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
~ George Cukor
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
~ Jeff Tweedy
There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.
~ Kevin Smith
It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.
~ N. R. Narayana Murthy
I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.
~ Kimbal Musk
If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.
~ Mark Cuban
As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
~ Charlie Sheen
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
~ Simon Cowell
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
~ Laurence J. Peter
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
~ Herbert Bayard Swope
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
~ Alexander Haig
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.
~ Rhys Ifans
When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.
~ Whitney Wolfe
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
~ Kevin Costner
Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
~ Chuck Noll
You always pass failure on your way to success.
~ Mickey Rooney
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
~ Charlotte Whitton
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
~ Lillian Hellman
I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.
~ Nick Saban
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
~ Rickey Henderson
We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
~ Joyce Meyer
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
~ Douglas Coupland
The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.
~ Tina Brown
I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
~ Octavia Spencer
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
~ Sydney Pollack
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.
~ Ben Carson
You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.
~ Roger Ailes
Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern.
~ Jillian Michaels
Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
~ Karen Salmansohn
Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.
~ Payal Kadakia
It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
I think there is a failure in foreign policy. And you have to acknowledge that under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton was the architect of that foreign policy. Whether it was malevolent or not, I don't know.
~ Mike Mccaul
Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
~ Felix Dennis
