"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."

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"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."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

Failure, Nations, Security, United

"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

Charles Kettering, American Inventor

Failure, Cause, Disgrace, Man

"Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."

Henry Ford, American Businessman

Failure, Opportunity, Learning, Success

"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

Failure, Theater, Writing

"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?"

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

Failure, Victory, Help, Information

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Failure, Community, Crime, End

"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Failure, Man, Old

"Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is."

Rob Liano, American Author

Failure, Action, Success, Inaction

"To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Failure, Destiny, Purpose, Life

"Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

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"O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change."

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"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

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"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."

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"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

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"The question of commonsense is always 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage."

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"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."

"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

"Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."

"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

"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?"

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

"Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is."

"To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born."

"Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes."

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"O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change."

"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

"One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world."

"The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen."

"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."

"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."

"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."

"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

"The question of commonsense is always 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage."