#fail

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#calling #countrymen #failed #good #good opinion

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art. ↗

— Avery Brundage

#art #athletics #failed #fine #fine art

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates. ↗

— Arleigh Burke

#authority #commander #exceed #fails #his

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. ↗

— Herbert Kaufman

#coaches #courage #failure #habit #long

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#bush #cheney #failed #iraq #laid

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#come #counterintelligence #department #detect #evident

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. ↗

— Robert Farrar Capon

#cook #develop #failure #great #great cook

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#fail #failure #fear #necessary #prospect

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. ↗

— Rosalynn Carter

#branch #failure #goals #high #high goals

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country. ↗

— Ed Case

#country #different #failure #hawaii #leadership