Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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.
Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.
Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.
For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
From my point of view, a lot of the things that we've done over our entire career have always been a big failure because it was never the way that I planned it. But then there's always upsides with it that turn out to be better or greater than the original plan.
I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.
'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
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.
What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
Don't come home a failure.
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
I expect either total success or total failure. That's my lot in life.
I lost my father. He had diabetes and high BP and so he died of kidney failure.
You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
The probability of failure doesn't matter to me.
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
Your ability to adapt to failure, and navigate your way out of it, absolutely 100 percent makes you who you are.
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.
I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.
I myself, as an American Indian, feel like a failure in a way. I have not been able to do anything about the fact that these large corporations are taking so much natural gas and oil out of the soil. It seems like we're always involved in fighting something. It's tiresome.
When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
Never permit failure to become a habit.
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.