Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierce Brosnan

When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.

Diana Nyad

I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.

Damien Chazelle

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

Nick Vujicic

We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.

Tadashi Yanai

I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

Jasper Carrott

I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.

Debbie Ford

New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets.

Cyril Connolly

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

Daniel Pauly

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

Conan O'Brien

When all else fails there's always delusion.

America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

Donna Brazile

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

Unfortunately I failed that one. It's a lot harder than it sounds!

John Muckler

We let a good hockey player go to Atlanta, ... But I just felt it was time for change. We had two runs at the Stanley Cup, one was partially successful, last season we failed. There's a reason when you fail and those reasons have to be looked and tried to be rectified and this is what we're trying to do.

We learn little from our succeses, but a lot from our failures

Herbert Samuel

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Robert H. Schuller

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Robert Kiyosaki

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Anupam Kher

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

Mark Williams

This was a miserable failure by the government to protect this family. If DSS had done what they were supposed to do, we wouldn't be here.

Nicolas Chamfort

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

We view this with all seriousness. There was long-standing neglect in the failure to get veterinary treatment.

George Tenet

When people use the word 'failure,' failure means no focus, no attention, no discipline, and those were not present in what we or the FBI did here or around the world,

David Gemmell

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

David Ogilvy

Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail? Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold cereals were rejected by consumers. More often new products fail because they are not new enough.

Claude Monet

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Dan Savage

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

Try to use the pronoun 'we' instead of 'you,' and speak about the intended result instead of the failed attempt.

Thomas Sowell

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

yet another reminder that the governor has failed to provide leadership in Sacramento and work with the Legislature to get things done.

Conor McGregor

I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.