He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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.
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
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 consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
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 ...
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
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.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.
But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!
Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
