I'm motivated by fear of failure. It's a personal mission to say to all those people from years ago, 'Look, I'm seriously not a failure.'

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I would walk the way and accept the risks I have counted, rather accepting my failure.

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.

At some point, most of us reach a place where we're afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we're already good at. This...

Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well... . Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent -...

My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in...

Misery teaches you the value of joy. It reveals to you the gravitas of human life.

A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you...

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

The overplanners just take longer to be wrong and, when things inevitably go awry, are more crushed by the feeling that they have failed.

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops...

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

Reversals and regressions are as much a part of the cycle of life as anything else.

The only real failure is abandoning your principles. Killing what you love because you can't bear to part from it is selfish and stupid. If your reputation can't absorb a few blows, it wasn't worth...

One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly grows top-heavy, more ghosts, more each winter, and fewer living... and with each one, he thinks he...

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

Because human nature never changes.

He challenged the world with his genius, and the world defeated him by ignoring the challenge and starving him. He stopped writing because he had failed and because he had no choice but to accept the...