You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished then it's a failure.

In high school in sport I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time try to fail better.

Far better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek ' which is a show that was for better or for worse all about the language. It was a word-perfect show which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time it wasn't my favorite working experience.