Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.

You need to have the courage to fail.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.

You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

There's a buzz to failing and not dying.

She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.