Ani DiFranco Quotes

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

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.

You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision and you know that it is the right thing to do, and success will come. So don't be afraid to fail!

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.

Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.

I have never feared failure.

Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.

True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.

I just always believed we would succeed. Even when everyone else said my ideas were ridiculous. Even when we were almost out of money. Even when the metrics were all upside down. I always have confidence that I'll figure something out. I just have that confidence that things are going to work out fine.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.

I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

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

How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.