I myself, as an American Indian, feel like a failure in a way. I have not been able to do anything about the fact that these large corporations are taking so much natural gas and oil out of the soil. It seems like we’re always involved in fighting something. It’s tiresome.
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
If you try to do your best there is no failure.
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember – that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
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.
If I’ve got a message to the younger generation, it’s this: don’t be scared of failure. Get out there, try things, and never be afraid to ask for help.
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.
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.
The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
Obviously, I agree with Trump on many of his criticisms of the mainstream media. You can absolutely argue that their failure to report honestly, to get outraged before we could, and to collude with the Clinton campaign directly led to the rise of Trump.
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
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.
A no deal Brexit would be a complete failure by the government to negotiate for Britain.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
Most people are afraid of failure. I love failure because it tells me where to go next.
My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
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.
Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
We can’t have a failure in Iraq, but we also can’t be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it’s going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.
I think it’s one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there’s so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you’re up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Mr. Gonzales’ failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls ‘black swans’ -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.
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.
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.
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.
I think one of the keys is to celebrate intelligent failures and when things don’t work, learn from those. Celebrate learning more than we celebrate the failure itself.
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.’
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
You can’t please everyone, but I’ve always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You’ll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.
Failure is knowledge, and knowledge is success.
Failure is easy to handle because once you fail, the options are very simple… like, ‘Try something different,’ or, ‘Maybe if you do the same thing, do it in a different way.’
You’re going to fail. It’s how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
It isn’t easy to suffer failure, go through all the pain and the hardship.
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
The success, or failure, of a CEO to implement AI throughout the organization will depend on them hiring a leader to build an organization to do this. In some companies, CIOs or chief data officers are playing this role.
I don’t have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I’m willing to risk quite a lot – as a comedian, you’re always risking a lot. You’re risking failure, especially if you’re improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
My Chinese name is Man Shing which means ‘ten thousand success.’ It’s a name that’s sure to set me up for failure.
There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you’re a failure or you’re a success. That mentality is wild.
It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn’t keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don’t regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don’t want to go into!
Jill Eisenstadt’s comic second novel, ‘Kiss Out,’ is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.
From my point of view, a lot of the things that we’ve done over our entire career have always been a big failure because it was never the way that I planned it. But then there’s always upsides with it that turn out to be better or greater than the original plan.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
For years, media moguls and campaigns bankrolled by the rich have fed the lie that migrants are the cause of injustices propagated by the powerful: the failure to build housing, the strain on public services by cuts, the lack of secure jobs, the decline in real wages.