The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
Failure Quotes (1508 Quotes)
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune....
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.
The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
We really want to have most of the failure in a game be based on things that the player did, as opposed to things outside of the player's control.
Let there be no doubt that any failure by Iraq to comply with its obligations will lead to serious consequences, ... For it is only the credible threat of force which has brought Iraq this far today.
If you live on the level of the Body and the Individual, you will get entangled in food, fun and frolic, ease, envy and pride. Forget it, ignore it, overcome it -- You will have peace, joy and calm. In the Divine Path, there is no chance of failure it is the Path of Love.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
I don't feel a sense of personal failure. If there is a sense of failure, it's that I let the people who invested in me, who invested in this campaign down.
It's a failure of our intelligence system. ... It's a failure that was caused by a lack of resources and by a complacency that set in over the last 10 years, a complacency that convinced all of us that with the demise of the Soviet Union, there were no more threats.
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
I think the company's HP's success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.
It's a union that's been defeated, and they're trying to decide how they're going to be defeated.
Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.
There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the failure of the federal government that has people in this country worried.
The text is a failure for development and a victory for corporate globalization.
If you leave the investment aside, ... it will be a huge disappointment if we don't win anything. If you include the investment, however, it will be a failure if we don't win something. That's the way the manager will see it and the way we see it, because
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure. So I did ten times more work.
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude.
Use the big thinker's vocabulary. Use big, bright, cheerful words. Use words that promise victory, hope, happiness, pleasure, avoid words that create unpleasant images of failure, defeat, grief.
Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
It' going to take time for this political process to unfold. Coalitions can take a long time to form, and delay isn't necessarily an indication of failure.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
I think that what we're hearing from consumers today is that not only do fad diets not work, they're really just a recipe for failure.
This year, this agency has failed 26 times. This failure can no longer be an option.
This wasn't a failure of one person, although it was that also, ... It was a failure of the whole bureaucracy, and the solution to that isn't getting a new head bureaucrat or a new type of head bureaucrat. I think the whole bureaucratic FEMA model is what has to be probably discarded.
When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men,
I told the kids we were on a mission to win a state title and that if we were 35-0 and if we didn't, the season was a failure. Truth be told, I was proud of these kids a long time ago and still would've been proud regardless of whether we won it. I felt we could do this. It's not a surprise. I felt last year we could've done it.
Continuing in Iraq without a plan, without a timetable for withdrawal, is a terrible signal to Americans and our troops. It's a failure of leadership.
If you look through history there has been some success in this and there's been some failures. It's very difficult.
Women think of heart disease as an old person's disease and a good way todie, ... But heart failure is every bit as bad as cancer, and the deathrate is higher.
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
These are human beings who have a long history of failing to comply with laws, and were not going to say this is a cure-all. But we hope we can see at least a modest reduction.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.To him...a touch is a blow,a sound is a noise,a misfortune is a tragedy,a joy is an ecstasy,a friend is a lover,a lover is a god,and failure is death.Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
The decision to resort to war can't be taken lightly. War is always an admission of failure and the worst solution. There still exists an alternative to war.
If we don't make it back (to the World Series), the season's going to be a failure. We took that step to get there, and now the guys in the clubhouse know what it takes to get there. Now we've got to figure out what it takes to win a World Series.
It was a no-win situation - you have to (win), you're supposed to, and if you don't, you're a failure. It's tough to live with that kind of scrutiny. But that's the nature of the beast.
The Chicago Bears have always placed a premium on having our players in camp on time. The failure to reach an agreement on a fair and reasonable contract has been a huge disappointment.
The road to peace is a very long road that has many milestones. If indeed the summit ended in failure it is our duty to ensure that it is not the last summit, and to leave the door open for dialogue, because the alternative is war.
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.