Some people find fault like there is a reward for it. - Zig Ziglar

From wherever you are, you can go anywhere you want to go if you pick the right roads to travel.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad. Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.