I wasn't afraid to fail.
Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne BaxterFailures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
Harvey MackayThe awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul TillichSometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
Michael CrawfordIt is now up to the police to decide whether these donations were part of a conspiracy or an administrative failure.
Vince CableLack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A NewhouseOver the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
Matt BluntOften the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell MaltzMay every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Patrick BlackettOptimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Elbert HubbardSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston ChurchillAbout the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Tommy LasordaSuccess and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
Joseph HellerKeep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger BabsonAll war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony BennDo not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
Mother TeresaYou always pass failure on the way to success.
Micky RooneySuccess doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
Edwin C BlissPeople 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.
Lao TzuSuccess is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind RussellTrying to integrate oneself and ones family with a community like that is something that is always ultimately destined to failure.
Christopher GistNever give up. Learning from failure is an essential part of the entrepreneur's experience
Rachel ElnaughOnly one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo CoelhoSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee WilliamsWe are all failures – at least the best of us are.
J M BarrieWhen you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair
George OsborneAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William FaulknerFailure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules RenardSuccess is ninety-nine percent failure.
Soichiro HondaA failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert HubbardI don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill CosbyThe happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha ChristieThere is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert HubbardIf at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin CrispI hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
J P GettyNot failure, but low aim, is crime
James Russell LowellBoth my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
Gustav MahlerMost of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Fred AllenIf we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Al GoreIt is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric HofferIt would be a real failure if agreeing that it[abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
Rowan WilliamsAs an Englander, I must admit it is true - if a Welshman achieves success he is heralded as a britishh triumph, should he lose then he is very much a Welsh failure.
Stan StevensWhen we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine MansfieldIf you want to win the battle then you better have the better tanks, they can make the difference between success and failure in combat.
Heinz GuderianI've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.
Raymond BlancWe failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E LeePain is temporary, Failure lasts for ever.
Lance ArmstrongThere is always time for failure.
John MortimerDon't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
Louis BooneThere is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.
Raymond Chandler
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