The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: war weapons failure bombs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Poverty is not wholly a personal failure. It also represents the failure of an economic system. And the remedy is not wholly one of charity, but of political and economic action. Poverty is a reflection also on those who are not poor. —Brooks Atkinson More about this quote Tags: politics failure poverty social responsibility economics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. —Coco Chanel More about this quote Tags: success failure belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. —George Washington Carver More about this quote Tags: failure excuses Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try. —Lauren Dane in Giving Chase More about this quote Tags: life risk failure chances trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: freedom style failure grace triumph defeat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We fall forward to succeed. —Mary Kay Ash More about this quote Tags: success failure falling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. —Benjamin Disraeli More about this quote Tags: failure planning strategy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But the mother's yearning . . . feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: failure man mother child Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. —Gore Vidal More about this quote Tags: success failure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. —Thomas A. Edison More about this quote Tags: learning failure work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. … Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. … It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: honesty history disappointment progress failure work laws illusions delusions resilience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes . . . as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Tags: war politics imagination memory people failure science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't count the number of times I have officially assembled the equipment to take my life: a knife, a handgun, a plastic bag, a bottle of codeine and a fifth of vodka. My motivations are never quite clear: perception of failure, futility, a sense of irremediable isolation, mtv — nothing everyone else hasn't suffered through. Yet I tend to magnify my gloomy outlook into a drive-in picture of the end of the world. I can't seem to remember that despair is a temporary state, a dark storm along the highway; that if I can just stick it out, keep the wipers going and my foot on the gas, I will make it through to the other side. —Poe Ballantine More about this quote Tags: failure despair suicide isolation futility temporary Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our thoughts limit what we're capable of doing. There are external forces arrayed against us, but there are also internal forces that sabotage us before we even get started. Our mind is good at setting us up for failure and getting us to think small. But I have found that we will do for love that which we don't think is possible. So the question to ask ourselves is "What do I love? —Julia Butterfly Hill More about this quote Tags: love mind failure thoughts sabotage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email