They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!
Thought is born of failure.
Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.
All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Failed the bright promise of your early day?
If you must fail. . . fail spectacularly!
When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.
Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.
I can live with failure if it is born of conviction.
To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.