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I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.
The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness 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.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.
The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.
I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.
Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.
I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.
I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.
What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.
Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.
When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.
Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.
I cannot think of any venture I have initiated where an earlier failure wasn't an important precursor to an eventual success.
Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!
Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.
At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
I have no ambition whatsoever. I don't know whether that's because I'm afraid of losing, or of failure - of not being the best.
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
My worst fashion failure was when I wore tight PVC pants, and I had a show in Eugene, Oregon... my pants split down the center.
Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.