In Torch Song I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure which also colors how you react to doing other things.

Not failure but low aim is crime.

Ideology politics and journalism which luxuriate in failure are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking large ambition and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner then he is.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

If there exists no possibility of failure then victory is meaningless.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment the father of both progress and failure.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence and the downward spiral begins.

Every great work every big accomplishment has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

In all our deeds the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since physically or mentally.