#fail

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#bet #better #between #calculated #calculated risk

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#begin #ceasing #failures #immense #importance

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#always #any #best #circumstances #effort

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#courage #failure #his #king #lost

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime. ↗

— Francis Maude

#crime #cutting #failing #our #party

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#al #destroy #economy #failure #fear

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. ↗

— John Mayer

#become #defined #failure #guitarist #hendrix

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen. ↗

— Kevin McCarthy

#care #cried #democratic #failed #government

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#american #back #back up #else #fail

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#failures #sanctuary #your