There’s a difference between a failure and a fiasco… a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
The failure of the United Nations – My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
When you are having a rough day… you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It’s about building character and growing.
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at.
What strikes me is that there’s a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
I’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.
‘Pressure’ is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.
We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don’t understand commitment.
Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.
Failure holds the seeds for greatness – so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
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.
People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.
Success is boring… failure is exciting and more entertaining.
Like 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.
