You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.
As a mother, I'm constantly feeling like a failure.
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'
You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.
I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
I think if you just eat healthy, you're active, and you don't beat yourself up, you're setting yourself up to win rather than setting yourself up for failure.
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
