Vita Sackville-West Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

I hate failure and I am in love with achievement.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

We're hoping to succeed; we're okay with failure. We just don't want to land in between.

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too.

They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all".

We live in a world where art is always looked upon as the perfect medium. We live in a society where we can alter our body parts, we can act in the most perfect or right way. A lot of that is dangerous because, especially in the world of art, the chief enemy of creativity is being safe. If you're safe, you can't fall and hurt yourself. The older you are, the further down the crash is going to be. But if it works out, the higher the high.

In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.