The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

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

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

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

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

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.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

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.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

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

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

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‚whiz kids‘ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

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

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

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.

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

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

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.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

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.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

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

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

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation’s interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation’s interest.