Conan O'Brien Quotes

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.

I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.

I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.

It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

I think the big thing is don't be afraid to fail.

I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.

My first film was a failure. I had many failures too. It's not easy dealing with it.

Bottom line is don't ever be afraid to fail.

Tupac was just so passionate about what he believes in and not afraid to say anything.

Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.

What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

Don't give up, courage is my conviction.