Quotes About Succeeding And Failing

#1. I tried to put myself in his place, and realized we looked exactly like what we were: a family. These strangely tied together individuals trying desperately to keep both ourselves and one another happy. Succeeding, and failing, and succeeding.

David Levithan

#2. Theatre is so much fun because you do theatre and you have a month of working it out on your own, and then a month of rehearsal, so by the time you get to stage I know where I'm failing and I know where I'm succeeding and your boundaries are pretty concrete.

Chris Pine

#3. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Julie Andrews Edwards

#4. Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Michael Eisner

#5. Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Kenneth Lonergan

#6. Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

Mitt Romney

#7. I don't mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.

Vinod Khosla

#8. I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.

John Assaraf

#9. Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

Julie Andrews Edwards

#10. You shouldn't fear failure. You should fear succeeding at the wrong thing. I may fail, but I'm failing at the right thing.

Melissa D'Arabian

#11. He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky thing. It's easy to think you're succeeding when you're failing spectacularly.

Holly Black

#12. I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

Bob Goff

#13. Being a warrior doesn't mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.

Richard Strozzi-Heckler

#14. Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#15. If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

Kent Beck

#16. And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily
open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.

Eugene H. Peterson

#17. Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'

Astro Teller

#18. You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

Sebastian Thrun

#19. Shapers" are independent thinkers: curious, non-conforming, and rebellious. They practice brutal, nonhierarchical honesty. And they act in the face of risk, because their fear of not succeeding exceeds their fear of failing.

Adam M. Grant

#20. Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.

Howard G. Hendricks

#21. Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

Richard Mitchell

#22. It is essential that we develop a learning space where failure is positive, as it is a catalyst for growth and change. Students need to recognize that taking a risk and not succeeding does not mean they are failing: It means they need to try another way. After

Starr Sackstein

#23. Every opportunity to fail is an opportunity to succeed. Failing to fail is succeeding.

Ben Tolosa

#24. Which is why you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them.

Mindy Kaling

#25. I don't think anyone would look at Colombia today and say that it is failing. This positive outcome is an example of the effective application of smart power - it is succeeding.

James G. Stavridis

#26. ...you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you are failing. It calms them. That's why the show Intervention is a hit and everyone loves "worrying about" Amanda Bynes.

Mindy Kaling

#27. Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Tim Fargo

#28. Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

Jose Bergamin

#29. If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

Daniel Kahneman

#30. Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

Shonda Rhimes

#31. The same feeling you get from succeeding is the same feeling I get from failing, now imagine what happens when I win.

Behdad Sami

#32. The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Francis Bacon

#33. In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

Alan Moore

#34. Getting hurt physically, failing, persevering, and succeeding (despite overwhelming odds) are key factors in a male's growth toward manhood.

Vicki Courtney