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.

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.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

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

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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

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

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.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

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.

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

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

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

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.

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.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

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

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

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

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.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

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

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

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

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

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.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

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

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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

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

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

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

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.

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

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.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

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

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.