Boyd K. Packer Quotes

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Disaster

• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Failure

• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Failure

• I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Capitalism

• Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Failure
  • Revolution

• The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Important
  • Game

• My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Business
  • High
  • Father

• Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • God
  • Moving
  • Failure

• Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one. (15)

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Failure

• I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Illness
  • Cure
  • Prevent

• There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

  

  Max Beerbohm
  • Success
  • Interesting
  • Failure

• Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Persistence

• I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.

  

  Keith Teare
  • Failure

• The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

  

  David Harvey
  • Confidence
  • Failure

• It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what you were going to do." He kissed her again, a warm, damp touch of lips, exquisitely controlled. "But it doesn't matter whether you stay or go. I'll still need you. So if you want to go off to Boston, Ill wait. Right here, whenever you need me.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Life
  • Control
  • Waiting

• Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Mistake
  • Failure

• My mother was a stout woman with a man's name - Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes - no black grease by the lash line, no blue powder on the lids, eyebrows not plucked up high and thin.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Everything in your world is created by what you think.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Everything
  • Created

• I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • World
  • Why
  • Earth

• If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Failure
  • Feelings
  • Shame