Pastoral Resources

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.