Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
~By Tammy Bruce ~
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.
~By Bob Woodward ~
Failure is a word unknown to me.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
~By Anna Neagle ~
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
~By Boutros Boutros Ghali ~
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
~By Sting ~
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 ~
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 ~
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
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.
~By Alberto Giacometti ~
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
~By Earl Warren ~
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
~By John W. Gardner ~
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
~By Rick Pitino ~
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
~By James Allen ~
Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
~By Len Wein ~
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
~By Fred Allen ~
Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
~By John Mica ~
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
~By Michael Korda ~
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
~By Chris Van Hollen ~
A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
~By Elmer G. Letterman ~
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
~By George Edmund Street ~
Never permit failure to become a habit.
~By William Frederick Book ~
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
~By Ezra Pound ~
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
~By Chris Hedges ~
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
~By George Eliot ~
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
~By Roger von Oech ~
If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.
~By John Gould ~
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
~By Tom Cochrane ~
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
~By Napolean Hill ~
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
~By Sivananda ~
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
~By B. F. Skinner ~
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
~By Morris West ~
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
~By Steve Forbes ~
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
~By Richard Whately ~
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
~By Margaret Drabble ~
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
~By Edmond H. Fischer ~
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
~By Sonia Johnson ~
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
~By William Hurt ~
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
~By Paul Getty ~
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
~By Matthew Perry ~
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
~By Paramahansa Yogananda ~
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
~By Anne Baxter ~
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
~By Napolean Hill ~
But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.
~By Cliff Richard ~
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
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 ~
Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
~By Andrew Vachss ~
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
~By Norman Cousins ~
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
~By Arthur Miller ~
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
~By Larry Elder ~
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
~By Steven Brust ~
The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
~By Carl Levin ~
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
~By Bodhidharma ~
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
~By Jeff Sessions ~
You always pass failure on your way to success.
~By Mickey Rooney ~
But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
~By Rosalind Russell ~
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
~By Francis Picabia ~
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
~By Alan Rickman ~
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
~By Andrew Taylor Still ~
And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
~By Harvey Korman ~
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
~By Roger Babson ~
Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
~By John Haggai ~
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
~By Charles Inglis ~
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
~By Herbert Samuel ~
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
~By Dean Kamen ~
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
~By George Eliot ~
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
~By T. Boone Pickens ~
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. 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 ~
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
~By Greil Marcus ~
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 ~
There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.
~By Craig Breedlove ~
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.
~By Lee Scott ~
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
~By Rosalynn Carter ~
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
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