We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I’m a Christian by choice.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

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

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn’t financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

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.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.