Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some… — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Surprisingly, it's forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Women tend to vote the economic interests of their families and to speak out on family economic issues. For men, there's often… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some… — Reg Revans Copy Share Image
Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image