Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.
Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.
Whether you're going to fail or succeed, you've got to be yourself.
Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for debate, and, mostly, I fail. But I try. I like to make things. It's a way to stay busy during one's ephemeral and confusing life.
Because I'm not attached to the outcome, I don't have to worry whether I succeed or fail.
It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.
Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.
It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed.
I've decided that whether I succeed or fail, I have to give it 100 per cent. That way, at least I know I tried.
I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.
These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.
What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.