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.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it’s about work.
I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
It’s a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
That’s the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
Sometimes failure isn’t an opportunity in disguise, it’s just you.
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
Being a lifelong athlete, I am a firm believer that I am who I am today because of sports. Not only did it give me structure and a solid foundation, but it gave me a sense of failure and how to overcome failure.
Failure and things of this sort – you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people’s lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn’t know what success felt like. I’ve carried that with me ever since.
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last… Whether it’s tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
George Orwell’s science-fiction classic ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ wasn’t a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
Try not to say, ‘I’m a failure.’ Instead, ask, ‘What can I do better? What did I do wrong?’ Then re-approach.
Failure doesn’t scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
