Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love of will of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

You know be able to do something great in your life you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

In other words don't expect to always be great. Disappointments failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem let's go and get it'.

All the ills of mankind all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books all the political blunders all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it but had the representation of democracy in it.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections admit our failures and plead to God for clemency.

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success it enables you to ignore the minor hurts the opponent's pressure and the temporary failures.

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West so was my information inadequate to help them to victory or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

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

Failure is not fatal victory is not success.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Ken Lay has does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Spend enough time around success and failure and you learn a reverence for possibility.