The way to success is not a straight line segment. It’s a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween.

In most cases, failure is not determined by the obstacles we face, but by how we approach them and what our perceptions whisper to when on encountering eventualities.

I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

Your failure may put smiles on people’s faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don’t be deceived; it’s just a charm to entice you to fall in love with mediocrity!

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures...

Many people who became successful were once first time global failures. But because they didn’t give up on their dreams, failure could not sink them. They triumphed at last!

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.

Don’t lose hope. If your hope gets lost, the other side called “failure” begins to win! The quickest medicine to heal a depressed soul is to command; “arise my soul and praise the Lord”. Hope...

If you’re not polarizing, you failed, in my opinion.

We have to understand the emergency of the situation. Our leadership has failed us. Young people must hold older generations accountable for the mess they have created. We need to get angry, and transform that...

When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don’t be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now!

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They’re making a mistake.

For 25 years, countless of people have stood in front of the United Nations Climate Change conference asking our nations’ leaders to stop the emissions. But clearly this has not worked, since the emissions just...

A mind that establishes indifference is the mind that builds failure.

It’s the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that’s failed.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the hunger of a child.

The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo’s slide also depressed sentiment. If the HSI breaks 17,400 that will be the first sign that sentiment is weakening.

In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!

When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.

If we don’t build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I’m, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

I failed music when I was a teenager.

The shark had never begged Jonah in order to get him swallowed; Jonah’s own actions took him into the shark’s belly! Failure may not chase after you, but when you miss your way, you will...

It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism.

It’s time to bury the unreal, failed ‘realism’ of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

I was just shy of reaching my goal. My goal was to be more extroverted, so being just shy meant I completely failed.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.