Failure Quotes - Page 17

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

I have had all the disadvantages required for success.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Failure is often the line of least persistence.

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Fear of failure falls away in the face of death.

Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.