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.
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 don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
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.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.
Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
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.
Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
