#failure

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#been #best #failure #fear #motivator

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ↗

— George Edward Woodberry

#defeat #failure #failures #tried #true

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#failures #i #look #made #me

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#clean #come #deal #failure #final

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know. ↗

— Will Wright

#cool #every #failures #find #hunt

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. ↗

— Rosalyn S. Yalow

#discrimination #due #failure #large #leadership

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. ↗

— Toby Young

#become #befall #disaster #exactly #failure

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America. ↗

— Toby Young

#britain #celebrate #chances #class #condemn

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#give #gladly #hate #i #just

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

#council #enough #failure #i #maybe