Failure Quote by Dean Acheson Download Open image “The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.” — Dean Acheson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failure Made Mistake Office
Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice President of the United States. Should have stuck with my old chores… — John Nance Garner Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake I have ever made was letting people stay in my life longer than they deserved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected. — Luis Fortuno Copy Share Image
I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I made a life-changing mistake. I continued working for Melania, and at the White House, even though the environment was toxic, because I believed… — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest mistakes in my life were the mistakes I refused to make. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
“Rhiannon's Law #28: If you're going to fuck up, be sure to fuck up good and proper. Nothing makes failure acceptable, so you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to… — Tom Segev Copy Share
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image