War is failure of diplomacy.
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
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.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
My reputation grows with every failure.
The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Success is 99 percent failure.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.
We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
