The banking collapse was caused more than anything by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation rather than by greed.

It's a European Union of economic failure of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money how you want to raise kids who is going to work or stay home or what have you then you've set yourself up for failure.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years it's a failure.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability is simply attracting the best-educated most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

I feel in the end as if everything I've done has been a failure.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me divorce symbolized failure.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent but I did know I had a fear of failure and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

I realized that I was afraid to really really try something 100% because I had never reached true failure.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work you're a failure. And if it does work you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

I may be a successful football player but I feel like such a failure.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

I've tried to handle winning well so that maybe we'll win again but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball but to sport.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Success is more dangerous than failure the ripples break over a wider coastline.

With the NDAA his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush a man on a quest for American Empire.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.