#lure

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#any #ask #failure #luck #matter

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? ↗

— Debra Winger

#actual experience #afraid #after #because #choice

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ↗

— John Wooden

#failure #fatal #might

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#been #best #failure #fear #motivator

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ↗

— George Edward Woodberry

#defeat #failure #failures #tried #true

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#failures #i #look #made #me

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#clean #come #deal #failure #final

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know. ↗

— Will Wright

#cool #every #failures #find #hunt

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. ↗

— Rosalyn S. Yalow

#discrimination #due #failure #large #leadership

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#character #comes #comic #even #failure