Thursday, 2 August 2012

Quotes on Failure 2


Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack Obama

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Barack Obama

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest Hemingway

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

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