#fail

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces. ↗

— Bill Walton

#better #better person #failures #i #i can

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ↗

— Allen Neuharth

#being #being afraid #down #failed #fall

The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big to fail' to actually fail. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#bank #because #big #cause #country

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals. ↗

— Abu Abbas

#any #could #failed #goals #had

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed. ↗

— John Otway

#huge #huge star #i #star #wanted

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#could #country #education #fail #fund

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#diet #either #even #fail #feds

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. ↗

— Alan Price

#failure #fathers #orphan #phrase #thousand

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. 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

#best #branch #do your best #fail #failure

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#because #failure #had #i #never