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Failure is not an option, and I always felt like I'm a man who doesn't have regrets, and I don't live with excuses. I can't take excuses.
Sep 21, 2025
This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
Failure is not an option on this one.
Failure is not an option. Failure is a prerequisite.
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.
Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.
We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.
Failure is not an option, so why talk about it?
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
Failiure is not an option.
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."
Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
Failure is not an option. Success is just a process.
Failure is not an option!
Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.
Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.
We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.
If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that. You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure. As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.'
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.
The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'
Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.
Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.
The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.
Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly." This means holding absolutely nothing back; giving 100 percent of everything you've got to achieving wealth. It means being willing to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes. This is the warrior's way. No excuses, no ifs, no butts, no maybes-and failure isn't an option. The warrior's way is simple: "I will be rich or I will die trying."
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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