3 December 2020 Alexandre Dumas A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
3 December 2020 William Kingdon Clifford When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
3 December 2020 Seth Godin In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
3 December 2020 Gifford Pinchot Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
3 December 2020 George Allen I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.
3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
3 December 2020 Agnetha Faltskog It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn’t keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don’t regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don’t want to go into!
3 December 2020 Thomas John Watson, Sr. You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure.
3 December 2020 Steven Moffat The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you’ve got playing the leads.
3 December 2020 Ben Okri The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
3 December 2020 Mia Hamm Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
3 December 2020 Lee H. Hamilton Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
3 December 2020 Emanuel Steward I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.
3 December 2020 Harvey Fierstein In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
3 December 2020 Jerry Rice My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn’t want to let them down.
3 December 2020 Paul Feig I’m kind of a failure. I mean, I’ll be honest. I’m successful in that I’m getting to work on great stuff, but I think I’m a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.
3 December 2020 Annette Funicello The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
3 December 2020 Carroll Quigley The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
3 December 2020 Alice Foote MacDougall I simply don’t believe in failure. In itself, it doesn’t exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
