But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.
Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.
Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.
Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.
Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes
Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.
I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.
My failures has helped me as much as my successes.
We have scarcely gotten home. . . when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.
When you die, i. e. , when your physical body is finished with this earth. . . and your astral entity goes on to the astral world. . . it has to stand alone and answer for successes and failures.
All my successes have been built on my failures.
Success has many fathers; failures have none.
I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.
Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.
Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.