I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Ultimately all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why then have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

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

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world divide and conquer must become define and empower.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Within the U.S. the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here I fear the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

I believe in trusting men not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be a challenge to others.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished then it's a failure.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Failure has gone to his head.