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" Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations. "

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" When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. "

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" When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure. "

" If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. "

" Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure. "

" The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. "

" I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure. "

" Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. "

" No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. "

" Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. "

" I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. "

" The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. "

" Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they're a failure as a parent or, you know, they're embarrassed for their child or they want to protect their child, lots of very good reasons, but mental health, I feel, is something that you have to talk about. "

" Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. "

" Sometimes the best gain is to lose. "

" As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion. "

" The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction. "

" The only failure is not to try. "

" If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred. "

" Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts. "

" Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. "

" I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do. "

" The human mind and body remains the most complex, powerful machine on the planet, and we will adapt and thrive in a world of accelerating technological change. "

" There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. "

" The Democratic Party's success or failure - if they expect any opportunity to gain a political foothold in the foreseeable future - resides solely on the party's ability to reconcile with the American people, most especially with the Americans that they chose to ignore. "

" Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. "

" There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. "

" Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. "

" I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters. "

" Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. "

" Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. "