People Quotes

The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.

~ Tim Hetherington

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

~ Nadine Labaki

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

~ Myles Munroe

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

~ Chanakya

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.

~ Jay-Z

I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't feel like I could talk about it. I did not want other people's pity, so I mostly kept my story and my feelings to myself.

~ Virginia Williams

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.

~ Lao Tzu

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

~ Jay-Z

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

~ Saul Alinsky

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

~ Kevin Smith

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

~ John P. Kotter

The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

~ Rain

Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

~ James Altucher

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

~ John W. Gardner

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.

~ Anna Quindlen

When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

~ Moby

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

~ Thomas Sowell

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

~ Davy Crockett

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

~ Jensen Ackles

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

~ Lady Gregory

Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.

~ Atul Gawande

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

~ Dylan Moran

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

~ Robert Dallek

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.

~ Keyshawn Johnson

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

~ Eric Ries

The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.

~ P. J. O'rourke

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

~ Robert Kiyosaki

If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.

~ Anne Wojcicki

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

~ Charles Duhigg

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

~ Peter Jackson

People never confess to failure. They should.

~ Mo Ibrahim

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

~ Michele Bachmann

There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

~ Gail Collins

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

~ Al Sharpton

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

~ Mandy Moore

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

~ William Hurt

Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.

~ J. D. Vance

I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it.

~ David Thewlis