Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility - that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures or personal shortcomings.
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all - redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair - raising revelations of skullduggery and grand - scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
We are all failures - at least, all the best of us are.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
