Avoiding Failure Quotes

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing

The thing the Pentagon should be seeking is success, not avoiding failure.

I never like to talk about things until we're already successful. The moment you announce what you're thinking about doing, you've already created a ticking time bomb.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.

I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.

I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I'd say the film to avoid is a director's second film, particularly if his first film was a big success. The second film is where you've really needed to have learned something.

I think we were damned lucky that our music never went down the drain because we went down the drain, and I think, in truth, there are moments where you could have said we got pretty close, you know.

We're trained in school to equate mistakes with bad grades - something to be avoided at all costs. The alpha makers were somehow able to dodge that. They think that mistakes are just part of the creative process and maybe even the best way to learn.

You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.

Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

I've never been one to make plans, because I never wanted to disappoint myself.

It would have been very easy to play to the gallery, but I took a conscious decision not to do that. Safer not to be too popular. You can't fall too far.

I don't want to blow my own trumpet but the aim of the game is to hit and not get hit and that is what I am doing.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

The one thing you don't want to do is get to a point where losing becomes a habit.

Bubbles only break for a few different reasons, so if I can avoid those things, I can get a lot of things to happen.