Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
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.
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.
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.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
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.
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.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
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.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
