| "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." »Woody Allen |
| "It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses." »Seneca |
| "Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall." »Vincent Van Gogh |
| "To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time." »P. G. Wodehouse |
| "The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember." »Annie Sullivan |
| "failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does" »Richard Exely |
| "Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing." »H. Stanley Judd |
| "For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself." »Rita Mae Brown |
| "I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true." »Arsenio Hall |
| "It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)" »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led." »Warren Bennis |
| "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience." »George Santayana |
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