Top 1200 Risk And Failure Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or, to put it another way, you're at risk, and the people with you are at risk.

Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

The state ought not to intervene to prevent individuals from doing things that not only are no risk to others but are of no risk to themselves either.

The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps define what it means to be a human being.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

You want banks to take some risk, but intelligent risk.

The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

The risk element only came from acknowledging other people's attitudes toward it, and realizing that they considered it to be a risk for me to do.

When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, 'So what did you guys fail at this week?' If we didn't have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he'd high-five me. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn't the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I didn't try that because I was scared,' that is failure.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

When you risk nothing, you risk never truly living!

May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The truth is that we have all gone through failure. I have personally as well as professionally experienced failure.

Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.

We've been conditioned to think that quitting is a failure, a form of failure. How do we know that that's true?

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

That is a risk. Risk/reward, life's chances. There's always that part of it.

It's impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way. I don't look at American History X as a failure, or Fight Club as a failure, or 25th Hour as a failure, or Larry Flynt as a failure, or any of the movies that I care about that I've made that were not immediately successful. I'll stand with those movies any day over 90 percent of the movies that came out at the same time that made a hundred million dollars

The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

I think people overestimate the risk of high-risk projects.

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

Being in the Marine Corps and doing the job I did, there is a lot of risk involved. It made me comfortable with risk.

It's incredibly important to note that when you don't allow failure, you get more failure.