To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even ...
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real str...
Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Man is not made for defeat.
A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.
One failure is worth seven and a half successes.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.
