The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
Success is never final, but failure can be.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
Translation is the art of failure.
There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
Breaking down barriers is tough. Many companies make the mistake of dismissing diversity early on, only to realize later how foundational it is to their success or failure.
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.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
As a small business owner, you may not have the luxury to throw good money after bad, but if you can ascertain the 'why' of the failure, you can draw some significance from it and then turn it into something that clients will buy.
We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
