To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.
There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war breaks out... Often they fail because someone is elected to power who doesn't respect the rules of the democracy.
Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.
'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!
We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.
If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.
Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.
I've always striven to ensure that I work on one film at a time.
There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.