#failure

[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary. ↗

— Iain Pears

#deeds #divinity #failure #future #goals

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#good #gracious #i #loser #me

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#arcane #due #failures #four #i

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. ↗

— Anne Baxter

#always #comes #fail #failure #good

Never permit failure to become a habit. ↗

— William Frederick Book

#failure #habit #never #permit

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world. ↗

— Carl Levin

#credibility #damaged #failures #intelligence #iraq

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#failure #proletariat #republic #russian #socialist

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ↗

— Colin Powell

#failure #hard #hard work #learning #preparation

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. ↗

— William James

#failure #faith #his #human #lack

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#failure #government #i #looking #need