“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.” PeopleIfsLifeGivingMotivationalSuccessOpportunityForcePowerfulAcceptingFailingWillingBlessingEssentialsHandleBitterMost PowerfulDisguisePillsBounceBlessings In Disguise Author:Joseph Sugarman
“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.” IfsWayProblemLightEyeScienceHeavenStarsHoursPowerfulDarknessFailingComplexesIntellectFocusedNakedPerceiveConcentrationMost PowerfulRaysExposedFar AwayPlatesLensesTelescopesDarkness To LightRays Of LightComplex ProblemsNaked Eyes Book:Advice for a Young Investigator Source: Advice for a Young Investigator
“Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.” MeanSciencePowerfulFailingHabitEternalRewardsAdvancementDiligenceVigilanceEternal Vigilance Author:Lewis Howard Latimer
“When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.” PeopleHumansLawInterestNaturalJusticePowerfulLeaderFailingWrittenHuman NatureProtectInjusticeAriseJustifyMost PowerfulPowerful Leaders Book:Living Faith Source: Living Faith
“Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.” LiteraturePowerfulLeaderSupportFailingCitizensDemocraticPeacefulDependentIncentivesProsperousDemocratic Leaders Author:Natan Sharansky
“We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.” IfsTryingPowerfulMillionsFailingEventsCharityProfitExperimentsUpsetEndeavorCurvesRevenueAttorneyParamountFundraisingLearning CurveFundraising For Charity Author:Dan Pallotta
“To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.” SelfDoneSeemsActionPrayerPowerfulHealingFailingUniversalGods WillAppealsMost PowerfulLiving ThingsSelf CenteredBiddingUniversal LovePowerful PrayerLove Never Fails Book:Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage
“There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.” PeopleMenWayShouldMayMadeEnoughGovernmentEarthNationsPowerfulFailingDangerDesignConcernDestructionInstrumentsAccomplishServantQuartersImplicitCarelessnessNegligencePublic ServantsUndoingDupesInattentionScrutinize Author:Daniel Webster
“Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.” ThinkingShouldTryingSometimesFeelingsDifferencesPowerfulEffortAcceptingFailingRight NowSucceedExcitingLifetimeCelebrateProductiveEnjoyable Author:Martha Beck
“It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” KnowsHumansSelfProblemRealityActionFacesValuesPassionCoursesBeliefForcePowerfulMoralVisionFailingAchieveDangerJudgmentStandardsUltimateClaimsAimDareSolveSelf ConfidenceFollyRealisticIdealismEconomistCalculations Author:Robert Kennedy
“To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.” IfsWantPowerfulLeaderFailingRiskIndustryOrganizationNot AfraidPermissionBetter PlaceVery PowerfulTaking Risks Author:Rick Welts
“We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful.” IfsRealSelfCultureWinningStuffBornPowerfulFailingAchieveSelf EsteemSucceedLosingLowsCapitalismTrackEsteemConsumersWheelsVery PowerfulLow Self EsteemWinning And LosingConsumer Culture Author:Eve Ensler
“When you have three out of the four largest banks in America today, bigger than they were - significantly bigger than when we bailed them out because they were too big to fail, I think if Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, a good Republican by the way, what he would say is: Break them up; they are too powerful economically; they are too powerful politically.” IfsThinkingWayBigsTodayAmericaThreePowerfulBreakFourAliveFailingRepublicanBiggerLive For TodayTeddyAmerica Today Author:Hillary Clinton
“Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.” BigsPowerfulFailingStreetsWallExecutivesJailMain Street Author:Hillary Clinton
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein