The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices every one of them are leading you inexorably to either success or failure however you define those terms.
This is true enough but success is the next best thing to happiness and if you can't be happy as a success it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper truer happiness in failure.
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did then success would be no success and failure would be no failure to us.
The success and the failure are not my concern but His.
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
We do not know in most cases how far social failure and success are due to heredity and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
I think I've always been somebody since the deaths of my father and brother who was afraid to hope. So I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Once you can accept failure you can have fun and success.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Success is 99 percent failure.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures and what they attribute to us as failure.
I'm kind of a failure. I mean I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.
We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser it's like living fertiliser because you're forced on yourself.
I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Health care and education in my view are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.