“Most folk are afraid of achievement because they're afraid of making decisions that could lead to mistakes. Life is a constant education… — Dwaun S. Cox Copy Share Image
Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
If we fail in this country, it is because we are too timid. If we lose our way in America, it is… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn’t work. The harder you fight,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Democrats continue to make the mistake of plugging Trump into what they think their system is. And what they haven't figured out… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In his press conference last night, President Bush said he could not remember a single mistake he had made in the last… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“You’re not a failure, Uncle,” he said, the words awkward and insufficient in his mouth. “It’s only that we don’t feel safe.… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Adversity is a school that you need not apply to be enrolled. It has no respect for age, wealth, education, race, power,… — FRESH IN THE SCHOOL OF ADVERSITY by M M Kirschbaum Copy Share Image
“That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us. Each of us has lukewarm elements and practices… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am. And that while… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about… — Graeme Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
We all work for media, we all make mistakes all the time. That's inevitable. What the difference between a responsible journalistic institution… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“Brandy says, "Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes." Brandy says, "I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My part as an actor ends on the last working day. I think the success or failure only really matters to the… — Nithya Menen Copy Share Image
“Adams's diplomatic victory was Napoleonic in its magnitude and completeness, Even Caulaincourt, whom he overthrew, good-naturedly congratulated him after he had succeeded,against… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“One of our greatest failures in our busy, driven culture is that we don't celebrate the temporary untying of a complex narrative...What… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
“Imagine what it would be like for our descendants to experience the fall of civilization. Imagine failures of reasonableness so total that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“They have seen Death and ultimate defeat, and yet they would not in despair retreat, but oft to victory have tuned the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn't have as much comedy experience as other people at 'SNL,' and I… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
“How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this… — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
But instead I am applying for a job as an elf. Even worse than applying is the very real possibility that I… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The question that drives safety work in a just culture is not who is responsible for failure, rather, it asks what is… — Sidney Dekker Copy Share Image
Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene,… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
“To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing of everything she was, a prison she had built for… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“When one experiences a profound setback in the course of an enviable life, one has a variety of options. Spurred by shame,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Democracy is about constant vigilance. It's not straightforward, there will always be setbacks and you get particular be it religious fundamentalists, Christian… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
'You, too, can be the President,' every American kid is told. But one unintended consequence of this belief, it is that, as… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or a twist of vision… — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image