War except in self-defense is a failure of moral imagination.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Americans who make more of marrying for love than any other people also break up more of their marriages but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

The higher the artist the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools the greater the imagination. The greater the will the greater the secret failure.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

To harmonize the One with the Many this is indeed a difficult adjustment perhaps the most difficult of all and so important withal that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is that one is male and the other female.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking large ambition and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence and the downward spiral begins.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

I think you can have 10 000 explanations for failure but no good explanation for success.