War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth GalbraithOur greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSuccess is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillThe real fault is to have faults and not to amend them.
ConfuciusHalf the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
Carroll O'ConnorCourage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillThe price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
Donald RumsfeldNot failure but low aim is crime.
James Russell LowellYou fail only if you stop writing.
Ray BradburyFinite to fail but infinite to venture.
Emily DickinsonWe will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
George W. BushThere is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.
Erich FrommThere is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John KeatsLaw and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston ChurchillRemember that failure is an event not a person.
Zig ZiglarIt's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness, poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin HubbardObama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.
Donald TrumpI don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
Noel CowardHappiness is the only sanction of life, where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George SantayanaThere can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Erich FrommSocialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston ChurchillWhy should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest HemingwayI have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee WilliamsI've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Tony RobbinsThose outages were caused by separate equipment failures
John DeweySuccess is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillEveryone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.
Paul RyanI hate failure, and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille BallPolitically there were failures. And also on the personal level there were tremendous failures.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerNo enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need it performs some great service not for itself but for others, or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin CoolidgeIf any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities it becomes sick.
William JamesFailure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerAs kids we're not taught how to deal with success, we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed try try again. If at first you succeed then what?
Charlie SheenSuccess in life is determined by your ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillOptimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Elbert HubbardIf men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andre MauroisIt is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger BabsonSound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Og MandinoTo know a man observe how he wins his object rather than how he loses it, for when we fail our pride supports us - when we succeed it betrays us.
Charles Caleb ColtonFailure is authentic and because it's authentic it's real and genuine and because of that it's a pure state of being.
Doug CouplandOnly aim to do your duty and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas JeffersonAn appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell LowellIf all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth GalbraithSo what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
Rush LimbaughWe shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Winston ChurchillYou cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig ZiglarFew things are impracticable in themselves, and it is for want of application rather than of means that men fail to succeed.
Francois de La RochefoucauldSuccess is never final failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John WoodenIf you don't fail now and again it's a sign you're playing it safe.
Woody AllenDeath gives advance notice of his arrival to take you Sai Baba
Edison failed 10 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon HillI should be very willing to redress men wrongs and rather check than punish crimes had not Cervantes in that all too true tale of Quixote shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord ByronThose who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. KennedyLike success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement StoneFailure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George EliotI would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SophoclesBefore success comes in any man's life he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon HillMoral habits induced by public practices are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
PlutarchWhat does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us time and again?
Mitt RomneyIt is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. RooseveltSuccess or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act look feel successful conduct yourself accordingly and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William JamesIf you call failures experiments you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Mason CooleyAchievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett MardenI've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael JordanAny fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent PealeNo man ever achieved worth-while success who did not at one time or other find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
Napoleon HillWe shall not fail or falter, we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Winston ChurchillThose outages were caused by separate equipment failures.
John DeweyThere is only one failure in life possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George EliotNinety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington CarverI don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill CosbyIn other words don't expect to always be great. Disappointments failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem let's go and get it'.
Colin PowellThey who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure
James AllenRestlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. EdisonOnce you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success it enables you to ignore the minor hurts the opponent's pressure and the temporary failures.
Vince LombardiThe 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.
H. L. MenckenAll human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul SartreI've never been afraid to fail.
Michael JordanMany a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use
Francis BaconYou cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett MardenAs you know from school it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared even if you fail you've done your best.
Alice WalkerIdeology politics and journalism which luxuriate in failure are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'RourkeNone of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.
Rush LimbaughA real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude SteinLife is a process of becoming a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais NinMy failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.
Tiger WoodsIt is here my daughters that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me although we may more often fail and commit small lapses our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Saint Teresa of AvilaThe probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham LincolnIf you live on the level of the Body and the Individual you will get entangled in food fun and frolic ease envy and pride. Forget it ignore it overcome it -- You will have peace joy and calm. In the Divine Path there is no chance of failure, it is the Path of Love.
Sai BabaFar better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore RooseveltSuccess comes when people act together, failure tends to happen alone.
Deepak ChopraThe idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
P. J. O'RourkeOne's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense every man can be a king and must therefore be treated like a king.
Abraham MaslowSuccess is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco ChanelSuccess is bounding from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillIf a building looks better under construction than it does when finished then it's a failure.
Doug CouplandIn our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents worried five of them to death impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'RourkeAt 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities know how far he can go foretell his failures - be what he is. And above all accept these things.
Albert CamusIt's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill GatesI'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.
George W. BushI can accept failure everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael JordanThere are no mistakes or failures only lessons.
Denis WaitleyKeep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger BabsonDon't take 'no' for an answer never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even s
Winston ChurchillWe shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be.
Winston ChurchillFailure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. SchullerSuccess is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillThe United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.
George W. BushFailure is not fatal but failure to change might be.
John WoodenThe system has seriously failed. And when the system fails you have to go to the head. And he won't answer the questions.
Lance ArmstrongIn war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston ChurchillWhat makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties mental and physical but the burden of one's memories.
W. Somerset MaughamWhat love we've given we'll have forever. What love we fail to give will be lost for all eternity.
Leo BuscagliaNobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about if I fail at those if I'm not successful what do I have?
EminemThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William JamesIt is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.
Eric HofferNothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave FlaubertFailure is a detour not a dead-end street.
Zig ZiglarPeople must have righteous principals in the first and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
Martin LutherGetting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed he can 'earn' more in that single day while cleaning out his desk than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today in the executive suite the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.
Warren BuffettSocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas SowellMen are born to succeed not to fail.
Henry David ThoreauIf you're doing your best you won't have any time to worry about failure.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
J. K. RowlingRather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SophoclesFailure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie ChaplinThere are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.
Colin PowellI'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George EliotThe majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon HillShow me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. EdisonYou know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Rush LimbaughSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee WilliamsIt is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness, poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin HubbardThroughout my career if I have done anything I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener I fail.
Frank SinatraI don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.
Henry RollinsOf course violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
Barack ObamaSpeakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale CarnegieThe Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack ObamaPresident Obama Nancy Pelosi Harry Reid and their team have failed the American people and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.
Mitt RomneyWhat great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. SchullerConsul - in American politics a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose BierceThe happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha ChristieTo begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
James AllenBusiness and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
Mitt RomneyThe easiest thing to do whenever you fail is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington IrvingIn war when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOur business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis StevensonThe young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line banishment from all the living and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
James Arthur BaldwinIt is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore VidalTake a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But by all means try something.
Franklin D. RooseveltI would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John KeatsFailure should be our teacher not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing doing nothing and being nothing.
Denis WaitleyWhen Love can bring even God nearer to you how can it fail where man is involved?
Sai BabaIt used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed but today he goes in the advertising game.
Kin HubbardAfter my spectacular failures I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Mason CooleyIt is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But above all try something.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe failed but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E. LeeOne can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
William F. Buckley, Jr.Success is going from failure to failure without the loss of enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillI really love idiot enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances, they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
Chuck PalahniukAll human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl SandburgMy reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard ShawMany a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
Orison Swett MardenThe only failure one should fear is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George EliotAll that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts
James AllenA man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
John BurroughsCriminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction not an ethical problem.
Orson WellesWhen I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard ShawFail and your friends feel superior. Succeed and they feel resentful.
Mason CooleyGreatly begin. Though thou have time but for a line be that sublime. Not failure but low aim is crime.
James Russell LowellSince taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'
Paul RyanIn America there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack ObamaEvery experiment by multitudes or by individuals that has a sensual and selfish aim will fail.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAmbition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar WildeI have a great respect for incremental improvement and I've done that sort of thing in my life but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
Steve JobsDon't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Lily TomlinThose that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Winston ChurchillWe need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
Paul RyanIt is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all in which case you have failed by default.
J. K. RowlingA man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal or it may be a worldly object according to his nature at the time being, but whichever it is he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty and should devote himself to its attainment not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies longings and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome) the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.
James AllenThings have never been so swell i have never failed to fail
Kurt CobainInstruct the women of the village in the basic principles of child health, chile-care and child training. When health fails, people become despondent and even desperate.
Sai BabaIf you're not failing every now and again it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody AllenSuccess is the result of perfection hard work learning from failure loyalty and persistence.
Colin PowellHowever things may seem no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowStudy nature love nature stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd WrightIf thou art a man admire those who attempt great things even though they fail.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI want anyone who believes in life liberty pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force any person any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success I want that organization that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
Rush LimbaughAll that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
James AllenThink twice before you speak because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon HillTomorrow every fault is to be amended, but that tomorrow never comes.
Benjamin FranklinWhere the senses fail us reason must step in.
Galileo GalileiOne must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton ChekhovA man may speak very well in the House of Commons and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend in the course of my career if I have time to give a specimen of both.
Benjamin DisraeliMy father was not a failure. After all he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. TrumanNo man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William FeatherFail at love and the other tests don't matter.
Richard BachA failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe guns and the bombs the rockets and the warships are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNever fret for an only son the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard ShawFriends are an aid to the young to guard them from error, to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action, to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds.
AristotleIf there exists no possibility of failure then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. SchullerThere is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Kin HubbardWe have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.
Rudyard KiplingI'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. SchullerThere is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Tony RobbinsSuch is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments or the like, wherein men having a delight in such vanities mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail though this happen much oftener.
Francis BaconFailure has gone to his head.
Wilson MiznerAs water when transmuted into steam becomes a new, more definite and wide-reaching power, so passion when transmuted into intellectual and moral force becomes a new life, a new power, for the accomplishment of high and unfailing purposes.
James AllenFailure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm ForbesDevelop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale CarnegieI failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody AllenIf I had permitted my failures or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin CoolidgeMost great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon HillThe person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
Francis BaconThe great question is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with failure.
Laurence J. PeterCliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron PaulThere is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert HubbardPeople in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning there will be no failure.
Lao TzuIn the last analysis the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas MertonFailure means a stripping away of the inessential.
J. K. RowlingThe fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack ObamaWords will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HoraceWhen ideas fail words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert HubbardHe had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause, to an ardent generous perhaps an immoderate passion for fame, a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund BurkeNo attempt should be made to belittle Society and benefit only the family for it is bound to fail.
Sai BabaFor just when ideas fail a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOnly those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert KennedyWhat would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. SchullerBig companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
Doug CouplandNothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin CoolidgeIn all my perplexities and distresses the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
Robert E. LeeThrough perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin DisraeliSo while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Barack ObamaIt has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men kindness and generosity openness honesty understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest sharpness greed acquisitiveness meanness egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John SteinbeckOne of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. GardnerThere is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas HuxleyNo man fails who does his best.
Orison Swett MardenWhat charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor the education of its young the repair of its failing infrastructure the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Stephen KingFailure is not a single cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead failure is a few errors in judgement repeated every day.
Jim RohnChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Arthur BaldwinCrime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. WellsIn Torch Song I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure which also colors how you react to doing other things.
Harvey FiersteinThe only guide to man is his conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield however the fates may play we march always in the ranks of honor.
Winston ChurchillAt best spiritual voices help us replace madness with clarity & violence, with compassion and peace. But we will live up to the promise only if we overcome the temptation to promote our own narrow comfort and individual peace of mind. If we fail this challenge we will not get a spiritual "new age" but a spiritual dead end.
Joseph Campbell