You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. Rosalynn Carter acceptbranchfail share on social
You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. Dave Van Ronk afraidfailuresuccess Change image and share on social
Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure. Bobbie Ann Mason anxietycropfailure Change image and share on social
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess. Tullian Tchividjian attainbelievechrist share on social
Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy. Tim Harford complexeconomyfailure Change image and share on social
You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side. Beau Willimon attemptbangfailure share on social
Success is always less funny than failure. Jon Ronson failurefunnysuccess Change image and share on social
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. Napoleon Hill createfailfailure Change image and share on social
The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector. Mike Pompeo energyfailurefederal Change image and share on social
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. John Updike authorcriticismfailure Change image and share on social