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.

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

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.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

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

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

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

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.

Without failure there is no achievement.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

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

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.

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

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

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

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.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.

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

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.

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.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

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.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

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.

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.

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?‘

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

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

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.

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

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

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

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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

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.

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