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The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.
People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.
If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.
After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?
Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.
By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.
I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
'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.
Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win; they lose.
The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
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.
Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.
Among the most common reasons why people come to an emergency room are bouts of heart failure or pneumonia. Sometimes they have a touch of both.
What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.
When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.
It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.