If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Man is not made for defeat.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine.
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.
AIG's failure revealed systemic problems in the OTC derivatives market that went well beyond the failure of a single market participant.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
