I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.
Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.
Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever.
The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big.
parindon ko manzil milengi yakeenan yeh faile hue unke par bolte hai, vhi log rehte hai khaamosh aksar zamaane mein jinke hunar bolte hai.
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.
Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
A poor logo doesn't mean a business will fail, and a good logo doesn't mean it will succeed - it just helps. Ultimately a good logo is something that people recognize instantly and relate to.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.
