In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations.
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
The Democrats want to celebrate their successes but don't want to look out of touch with the people who haven't risen much in the last decade or so really.
We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.
God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.
Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
Learning and leadership go together. Too much credit goes to me for what we have achieved at Virgin but the successes happen from working and learning with some of the world's most inspiring and inspired people.
I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.
Maybe today we aren't being told that our brains are not capable of such things [like programming], but we [as a women] are being told that we are not good enough or smart enough or that our successes do not belong to us.
People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.
At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.
One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.
All my successes have been built on my failures.
My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.
Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.
The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.