Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

You can look at it as a way to fail or you can look at it as a great opportunity to succeed. I guess we're lucky that we have kids who look at it as a great opportunity to make a big play and have a great victory.

We've had our first test, and we've failed miserably,

Wrestling is one of those things that you'll always feel like you've failed because it's always so individualized. Unless you get everyone through that you want, you are going to be disappointed. This was the toughest sectional in the state.

Mary Pickford

There is always another chance... This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down.

There is a lot of hope for the best. But if the two parties fail to resolve the venue issue and a way for talks, we will see a worse escalation in the violence.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

The recent penalties levied by CPSC send a strong message that failing to report potential hazards is illegal,

John Young

There can be stresses. 'I don't want to see the look of disappointment in my children's faces. Is it my fault?' The sense that I'm failing my wife, my children.

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.

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,

There is no question that (post-mortem studies would reveal) a higher failure rate.

Mark Lawrenson

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

Over here is a different mindset from them. You know you're getting ready for a championship season, and a season where you know in your heart that you're going to the playoffs and that ultimately your realistic goal is to win the World Series. And if you don't, then it's a failed season.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

Ashton Kutcher

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

I think the state has failed. The failure goes back decades. The culpability goes back decades. We just didn't pay attention.

I think there was a systematic failure at all levels of government to understand the magnitude of the situation.

I think there's pressure, period, regardless of the past successes or failures of any of my friends,

I think there has been a failure by some people in the press to distinguish between a player who's not playing because he feels he can't and the guy who's not interested in playing in this kind of tournament. The latter kinds of guys are very few in number.

Last week we were set up for failure from the get go. We had three games in four nights. Monticello played really well. There guards really pushed us to the limits, but we need games like that. We need to be in those situations to understand how to win.

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

People here know that I don't get intimidated easily. I think the only thing I was worried about was failing because so many things have happened the last three to four years of my life.

People make errors. The problem here was not the error. It was the failure of us to look at it end-to-end and find it. It's unfair to rely on any one person.

People involved in 'Mamma Mia!' think Wynn is trashing their show because he tried -- and failed -- to get it himself.

William Feather

Success makes us intolerant of failure, and failure makes us intolerant of success.

Success is a prize given to those who try and fail willingly.

Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Henry King

Stay for me there; I will not fail / To meet thee in that hollow vale. / And think not much of my delay; / I am already on the way.

State policy and state law failed the victims of the Kaufman House.