3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Connors 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.
3 December 2020 William Howard Taft Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
3 December 2020 Johann Most Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
3 December 2020 Tony Robbins I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
3 December 2020 Koichi Tanaka Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
3 December 2020 Bob Woodward The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon’s lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Danto It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
3 December 2020 Brian Ferneyhough Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
3 December 2020 Tom Baker I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really – it’s so boring.
3 December 2020 John P. Kotter The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.
3 December 2020 Tammy Bruce One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
3 December 2020 Hildegard Knef Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
3 December 2020 Robert Farrar Capon At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
3 December 2020 William Hurt Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I’m a failure.
3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
3 December 2020 Anna Garlin Spencer The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
