I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Learning to interpret the constant string of lies and excuses fed to you from kids terrified of failure but careening towards it… — Kendric Neal Copy Share Image
“In times of distress, when everyone looks to authorities to provide direction, protection, and order, this is an easy diagnostic mistake to… — Martin Linsky Copy Share Image
“Many supervisors will tell you what they want are people with energy, initiative, and imagination, but in reality, they feel threatened by… — Siong Guan Lim Copy Share Image
“Businesses make lots of mistakes, so part of the point of business is to analyze them, to correct them, to have some… — Patricia Crisafulli Copy Share Image
The best advice I give to young people starting out is choose your boss. Regardless of gender, I think it is important… — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
I think part of the disappointing failure of the political process in America today is that it's asking us to forget countries'… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Radio stations provided a service. They weeded out the stuff that no one should ever have to even think about. Now, they… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Ambition in Motion (The Sonnet) Come hell or high water, Never let caution cripple your feet. Better to fall hard and learn… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Happiness lacks depth. That is why happy people also lack depth, they have a superficiality about them. Suffering has great depth and… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Everything is always in motion. Every day, every moment, your life path is either curving upward, or curving downward. Growing up we… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
“Miss Rook,” he said, “the greatest figures in history are never the ones who avoid failure, but those who march chin-up through… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
“I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
The worst is being stuck in a quagmire of mediocrity, i.e. things are going reasonably well, but not spectacularly well. The reason… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I think that we're all complex characters, and we have to forgive ourselves. We have to own our own humanity by not… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The breakup of my first marriage was my first failure; I had to learn to accept that and support the people involved.… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
“Quince leans in over the map, studying, and I think he’s going to ask me something about the kingdoms or my plan… — Tera Lynn Childs Copy Share Image
Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“Victory always assumes a counterpart defeat. We will never take our places as “more than overcomers” with nothing to overcome. We will… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a… — Paul Kelly Copy Share Image
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“She deserved someone who could see what she had to give and would lover her for it. Who wouldn't turn away from… — Monica McCarty Copy Share Image
“Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Colin was beginning to be afraid(...)of the future, of the possibility, suddenly glimpsed, that his life might end like this. Like most… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Take the time to educate yourself, whether you're house hunting, deciding on materials or looking for a lender. When homeowners jump into… — Drew Scott Copy Share Image
We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
“Some organizations will declare defeat, pointing to the smallest backsliding as evidence that people can’t be trusted, that employees need rules and… — Laszlo Bock Copy Share Image
For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people.… — Charles Morgan Copy Share Image
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams,… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
In business, you take a swing and you hope that you hit a home run, but sometimes you strike out. Strikeouts and… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“Success comes from a thousand little things done well, rarely from a silver bullet, even though we'd all like to believe that… — L. R. W. Lee Copy Share Image
