Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
~By John Burroughs ~
Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
~By John Haggai ~
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
~By Rosalind Russell ~
I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
~By Michael Baden ~
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
~By Colin Powell ~
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~By Colin Powell ~
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.
~By Michael Chertoff ~
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
~By Tony Robbins ~
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
~By Mark Edwards ~
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
~By Dorthea Brande ~
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
~By Davy Crockett ~
Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
~By Edward Eggleston ~
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
~By Desi Arnaz ~
Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.
~By Jerry Brown ~
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
~By Donn Pearce ~
But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.
~By Cliff Richard ~
Success is 99 percent failure.
~By Soichiro Honda ~
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
~By Marvin Minsky ~
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
~By Walter Pater ~
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
If you try to do your best there is no failure.
~By Mike Farrell ~
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
~By Dean Kamen ~
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
~By Sivananda ~
The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
~By Winston Churchill ~
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."
~By Florence Scovel Shinn ~
I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
~By Edward Abbey ~
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
~By John Drinkwater ~
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
~By George W. Bush ~
There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.
~By Craig Breedlove ~
Failure is a word unknown to me.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
~By Lao Tzu ~
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
~By Tony Benn ~
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
~By Susan Sontag ~
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
~By William Feather ~
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.
~By Mark Skousen ~
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
~By George Edward Woodberry ~
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
~By Earl Wilson ~
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
~By Sumner Redstone ~
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
~By George Burns ~
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
~By Edward Dowden ~
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
~By William Faulkner ~
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
~By Denis Waitley ~
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
~By Walter Scott ~
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
~By Vin Diesel ~
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~By Mary Pickford ~
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.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
~By Gordon Moore ~
I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
~By Keren Ann ~
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
~By Tom Baker ~
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
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.
~By Neal Boortz ~
There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
~By Chuck Barris ~
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
~By Berthe Morisot ~
Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.
~By Wietse Venema ~
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
~By Arthur C. Danto ~
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
~By Hugh Grant ~
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
~By Roger Babson ~
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
~By Maude Adams ~
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
~By S. I. Hayakawa ~
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~By Winston Churchill ~
As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.
~By Doc Hastings ~
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
~By James E. Burke ~
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
~By Don Nickles ~
I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
~By Tom Hopkins ~
I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.
~By Shannen Doherty ~
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.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.
~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
~By Erik Erikson ~
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
~By Bodhidharma ~
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
~By Herbert Kaufman ~
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
~By Henry Ford ~
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
~By Francis Picabia ~
Translation is the art of failure.
~By Umberto Eco ~
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.
~By Amy Tan ~
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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