- Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
- John McCarthy on Failure
- Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
- Maxwell Maltz on Failure
- Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
- Andre Malraux on Failure
- Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
- Rickey Henderson on Failure
- Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
- One failure is worth seven and a half successes.
- Eli Khamarov on Failure
- One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.
- Melissa Rosenberg on Failure
- One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
- Tammy Bruce on Failure
- One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
- Thomas Sowell on Failure
- One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
- John W. Gardner on Failure
- One'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 Maslow on Failure
- Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
- Elbert Hubbard on 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.
- Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.
- Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
- Luc De Clapiers on Failure
- Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
- Adam Schiff on Failure
- Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
- Steve Forbes on Failure
- Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.
- Roland Gift on Failure
- Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.
- Pete Sessions on Failure
- Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.
- Richard V. Allen on Failure
- Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
- Kenneth L. Pike on Failure
- Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
- Matt Blunt on Failure
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