Pastoral Resources

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.