As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

So nevertheless what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

In a crowded marketplace fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace not standing out is the same as being invisible.

You must not demand the failure of your peers because the more good things that are around in film in television in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

We judged that a sudden disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy with lower equity prices further downward pressure on home values and less access to credit for companies and households.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members and many more Iraqis.

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area and especially to Spain.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices every one of them are leading you inexorably to either success or failure however you define those terms.

No failure in America whether of love or money is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal of a mass of shadowy shared hopes.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Americans who make more of marrying for love than any other people also break up more of their marriages but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

Definitely it's a fear of failure that drives me.

It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

This is true enough but success is the next best thing to happiness and if you can't be happy as a success it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper truer happiness in failure.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

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