3 December 2020 Amos Bronson Alcott We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
3 December 2020 E. Franklin Frazier Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women’s failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won’t go away.
3 December 2020 Major Taylor The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
3 December 2020 Henry Kravis As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.
3 December 2020 James M. Baldwin Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
3 December 2020 Sarah Michelle Gellar I don’t want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She’s the best thing I’ve ever done. Buffy – pretty great and all, but Charlotte’s way better.
3 December 2020 Woody Allen If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.
3 December 2020 Alice James The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
3 December 2020 Molly Ringwald I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.
3 December 2020 Steve Forbes 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.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Irons I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
3 December 2020 John McCarthy 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.
3 December 2020 T. Boone Pickens I have always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
3 December 2020 Xavier Becerra African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
3 December 2020 Christie Brinkley We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn’t handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn’t meant to be.
3 December 2020 John Haggai Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it’s doomed to failure.
3 December 2020 Chuck Barris There’s tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
3 December 2020 George Edmund Street I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
3 December 2020 Phil McGraw If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.
3 December 2020 Rupert Holmes But thankfully, my first album, ‘Wide Screen,’ was sort of a critics’ darling – everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasn’t even in the running for failure!
3 December 2020 Amelia Earhart Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
3 December 2020 Craig Ferguson It’s not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We’re not afraid of failure.
3 December 2020 Naveen Jain Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success – because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that’s disguised as failure.
3 December 2020 Amy Sedaris I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you’re stupid.
3 December 2020 Lisa Marie Presley I think I’ve failed every test I’ve ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
