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Success is not forever and failure is not fatal.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I do not see a box-office failure blamed on men.

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you are only as good as your most recent collection. That is definitely a fear, but it is a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

In God world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

If I did not have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Every book I have written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I am living life as best I can - but I am not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

I think I have failed every test I have ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I believe only in art and failure.

It is not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.