3 December 2020 John Larroquette If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you’re not really successful.
3 December 2020 James Taylor It’s probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it’s a failure.
3 December 2020 Paddy Ashdown The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
3 December 2020 Tommy Lasorda 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.
3 December 2020 Demi Moore Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.
3 December 2020 Jack Kerouac My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
3 December 2020 Sylvester Stallone I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don’t know if I’m the monarch of all I survey.
3 December 2020 Roger von Oech Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
3 December 2020 Herbert Bayard Swope I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
3 December 2020 Harold Ramis How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
3 December 2020 Soichiro Honda Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.
3 December 2020 Jonah Hill I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I’m psyched.
3 December 2020 Christian Nestell Bovee A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.
3 December 2020 Neal Boortz The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
3 December 2020 Amy Tan I think I’ve always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
3 December 2020 Denis Waitley Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
3 December 2020 Scott Ritter It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.
3 December 2020 Oriana Fallaci War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton’s mediation.
3 December 2020 Carol Moseley Braun The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
3 December 2020 Walter Scott Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen I’m sure not afraid of success and I’ve learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I’m afraid of now is of being someone I don’t like much.
3 December 2020 Felicity Kendal Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
3 December 2020 Whoopi Goldberg We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
