Pastoral Resources

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

Failure too is a form of death.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.