Failure is your invention.
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
No 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.
Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
Failure. It doesn’t exist. ‘Failure’ is just what happens when we lose perspective.
I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn’t do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don’t feel that any more.
Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? ‘Failure is impossible.’ Failure is possible if women don’t vote.
As much as you learn to handle failure, you must learn to handle success too, because that’s also important.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society reflect a failure of capitalism.
You can’t please everyone, but I’ve always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You’ll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.
You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure.
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
There’s always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.
I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.
My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths – superiority from below.
If you accept failure, then you can improve on it. It’s funny though, because, on the flip side of the coin, I’d say that if you don’t accept failure, there is no failure.
No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
When people read ‘Breitbart’ every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something – and the film was a failure.
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
