When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
Aamir Khan
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
Aaron Huey
To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.
Aaron Judge
I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
Aaron Sorkin
It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.
Abhay Deol
Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.
Abhijit Banerjee
I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.
Abhimanyu Singh
Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
Abi Morgan
All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Abraham Maslow
I'm the only member of my family who didn't get a PhD. So, I'm like the failure of the family, cause all I have is a bachelor's, like a drop out.
Adam Conover
The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
Adam Grant
I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
Adam Hasner
If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.
Adam Lashinsky
Neither a success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a right to dream that magic will become reality one day.
Failure is always an option.
Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.
Failure of a film doesn't diminish my love for acting.
The wisest of the wise may err.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.
Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
While we talk about successes, I think it's also important to talk about all the failures. Like, for every Netflix special, there's things that don't work.
I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city.
When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.
I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.
My first film was a failure. I had many failures too. It's not easy dealing with it.
Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.
I believe failure sometimes teaches you more than success.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.
Katie Price is no exception. She, too, is - in a distinctive way - a philosopher. Partially, Katie Price's philosophy is one of extraordinary confidence. She is remarkable not for her looks or antics but because of her tremendous self-assurance and her unwillingness to be intimidated by criticism or failure.
I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it's absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies.
Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.
It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.
