Failure To Launch

Failure is an event, never a person. - William D. Brown

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Forbes

Success and failure are equally disastrous. - Tennessee Williams

It's not failure. It's unfinished success. - Unknown

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. - Alan Price

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. - Rickey Henderson

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. - Morihei Ueshiba

Failure is necessary to succeed and will become your biggest blessing. - Lynn Bardowski

Government of the people, by the people, and for the pursuit of happiness. - Archie Bunker

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience. - Elbert Hubbard

We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one. - John Greenleaf Whittier

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. - Coco Chanel

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

You learn more from failure than from success. Don't let it stop you. Failure builds character. - Unknown

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson

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

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. - George Pataki

Doing the thing nearly right and doing it exactly right is usually the difference between success and failure. - Edward Simmons

Failure is instructive. People who really think learn quite as much from their failures as from their successes. - John Dewey

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. - Kin Hubbard

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. - Laurence Shames

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. - Aristotle

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. - Jaron Lanier

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. - B.C. Forbes

Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis. - George M Fraser