“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
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“We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.”
“There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.”
“To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.”
“Failure's a natural part of life.”
“The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.”
“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.”
“Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.”
“Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
“The only failure is not to try.”
“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.”
“With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.”
“I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.”
“The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.”
“And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.”
“The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.”
“Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.”
“I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.”
“We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.”
“You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.”
“With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.”
“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”
“Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.”
“Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.”